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brackish

adj
/ˈbɹækɪʃ/

Etymology

From Scottish brack (from Middle Dutch brac (“brackish”)) + -ish. Cognate with Dutch brak (“brackish”), German Low German brack, brakerg, brakig (“brackish”), German brackig (“brackish”), Danish brak (“brackish”), Swedish bräck (“brackish”), Norwegian brakk (“brackish”). Perhaps a distant doublet of brook.

  1. derived from brac — “brackish”

Definitions

  1. Of water, salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that…

    Of water, 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.
    • 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, Random House. The water we took on at Chatham Isle is now brackish & without a dash of brandy in it, my stomach rebels.

  2. Distasteful

    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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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA