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comparative more brackish, superlative most brackish
(of water) Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries. quotations examples
...by a low courſe and too long ſporting with the briny Ocean it taſts brackiſh and inſalubrious...
1638, Sir Thomas Herbert, Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique
On all sides a powerful brackish marshland odor, the odor of damp, and decay, and black earth, black water.
1992, Joyce Carol Oates, Black Water, Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 4.
The water we took on at Chatham Isle is now brackish & without a dash of brandy in it, my stomach rebels.
2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, Random House.
Distasteful; unpleasant; not appealing to the taste. examples
Repulsive examples