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

Your note

not saved
0 chars