brackish
UK /ˈbɹækɪʃ/ US /ˈbɹækɪʃ/
adj 3
Definitions
adj
1
Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries.
...by a low courſe and too long ſporting with the briny Ocean it taſts brackiſh and inſalubrious...
1992, Joyce Carol Oates, Black Water, Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 4. On all sides a powerful brackish marshland odor, the odor of damp, and decay, and black earth, black water.
2
Distasteful; unpleasant; not appealing to the taste.
Therefore the bread he had to eat Seemed brackish, less like corn than tares;
3
Repulsive
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