Meaning of BRACKISH
| Pronunciation: | | 'brakish
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| | Definition: | | [adj] slightly salty; "a brackish lagoon"; "the briny deep" |
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| | Synonyms: | | briny, salt |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Brack"ish\, a. [See {Brack} salt water.]
Saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water in saline
soil.
Springs in deserts found seem sweet, all brackish
though they be. --Byron.
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| | Definition: | | Mixed with salt; briny. |
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| | Related Terms: | | bad, barfy, briny, cloying, fetid, foul, fulsome, high, icky, maggoty, mawkish, nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, noxious, offensive, overripe, pickled, poisonous, rancid, rank, rebarbative, rotten, saline, salt, salted, saltish, salty, sickening, spoiled, stinking, vile, vomity, weevily, yucky |
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