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unbriny

adj

Etymology

From un- + briny.

  1. derived from *mriHnós✻
  2. derived from *bʰreyH-✻ — “to cut, maim”
  3. inherited from *brīnǭ✻ — “salt water, brine”
  4. inherited from *brīnā✻
  5. inherited from brīne
  6. inherited from brine
  7. suffixed as briny — “brine + y”
  8. prefixed as unbriny — “un + briny”

Definitions

  1. Not briny.

    • Among the accidents on this unbriny sheet of water, but which has unavoidably crept in under this heading, was the loss of an ox belonging to David Barnhart.
    • This pro-war impression on the populace the Navy Department sagely foresaw when it sent its men into the unbriny Northwest.
    • The author disembarks from a Lake Champlain skiff at Burlington, which resembles a fishing-town on the seacoast, although there is a sickly, unbriny smell about.

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