Definitions
slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water)
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“...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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Mildly salty”8 letters
02“Slightly salty”8 letters
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