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Briny

//ˈbɹaɪni// adj, noun, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, pertaining to, resembling or containing brine; salty.

    "on the briny deep"

Adjective
  1. 1
    slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water) wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    The sea. figuratively, slang

    "[Julian] Barnes wrote “Nothing to Be Frightened Of” when he was 62. He just turned 80. This briny English writer, author of “Flaubert’s Parrot” (1984) and a winner of the Booker Prize, for “The Sense of an Ending” (2011), now has a rare form of blood cancer, treatable but exhausting and uncurable."

  2. 2
    any very large body of (salt) water wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From brine + -y.

Etymology 2

From brine + -y.

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