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1. (adj.) brackish
slightly salt; salty or briny.
2. brackish
distasteful; unpleasant.
Etymology: (1530–40; < D brak salty + -ish1)
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1. (adj) brackish
distasteful and unpleasant; spoiled by mixture
"a thin brackish gruel"
2. (adj) brackish, briny
slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water)
"a brackish lagoon"; "the briny deep"
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1. (adj) brackish
saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water in saline soil
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Sense: (of water) tasting slightly of salt, often unpleasantly.
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 Afrikaans: brak |
 Arabic: ضارِبٌ إلى المُلوحَه |
 Bulgarian: с леко солен вкус |
 Brazilian: salobro |
 Czech: poloslaný |
 German: brackig |
 Danish: brak- |
 Greek: γλυφός |
 Spanish: salobre |
 Estonian: soolasevõitu |
 Farsi: شور؛ بدمزه |
 Finnish: suolapitoinen |
 French: saumâtre |
 Hebrew: מָיִם מְלִיחִים |
 Hindi: खारी, खारा |
 Croatian: bočat |
 Hungarian: kissé sós |
 Indonesian: payau |
 Icelandic: ísaltur; bragðvondur |
 Italian: salmastro |
 Japanese: 塩気のある |
 Korean: 약간 소금기가 있는 |
 Lithuanian: sūrokas |
 Latvian: (parūdeni) iesāļš |
 Malay: payau |
 Dutch: brak |
 Norwegian: brakk(vann) |
 Polish: słonawy |
 Persian: شور؛ بدمزه |
 Pashto: تریو، بدمزه |
 Portuguese: salobro |
 Romanian: sălciu |
 Russian: солоноватый |
 Slovak: poloslaný |
 Slovenian: slankast |
 Serbian: slankast |
 Swedish: bräckt |
 Thai: มีรสกร่อย |
 Turkish: hafif tuzlu, tuzlumsu |
 Taiwanese: (水)微鹹的 |
 Ukrainian: солонуватий |
 Urdu: نمکین ، کھاری ، شورزدہ |
 Vietnamese: nước lợ |
 Chinese: 有盐味的 |
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