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brackish

  • /ˈbɹækɪʃ/

Rhymes with -ækɪʃ

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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.

adjective more brackish · most brackish

  1. 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...
  2. 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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adj slightly salty

Españolsalobre, salobral
中文汽水 qìshuǐ, 半海水 bànhǎishuǐ
Portuguêssalobro, salobre
Françaissaumâtre
Deutschbrackig, salzig
Italianosalmastro
Românăsălciu
Русскийсолонова́тый solonovátyj, солёный soljónyj
Tiếng Việtlợ
العربيةآسِن ʔāsin, زُعَاق zuʕāq

adj distasteful; unpleasant; not appealing to the taste

Españoldesabrido
日本語まずい mazui
Deutschbrackig
Русскийпроти́вный protívnyj
العربيةآسِن ʔāsin

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@misc{brackish_2026,
  title = {brackish},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/brackish},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}