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BRACKISH

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brack⋅ish

  [brak-ish]
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–adjective
1. slightly salt; having a salty or briny flavor.
2. distasteful; unpleasant.
Origin:
1530–40; < D brak salty + -ish 1

Related forms:
brack⋅ish⋅ness, noun
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brack·ish   (brāk'ĭsh)   
adj.  

  1. Having a somewhat salty taste, especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water: "You could cut the brackish winds with a knife/Here in Nantucket" (Robert Lowell).

  2. Distasteful; unpalatable: a thin, brackish gruel.


[From Dutch brak.]
brack'ish·ness n.
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Word Origin & History

brackish 
1538, from Scottish brack "salty," from M.Du. brak "salty," also "worthless."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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