brackish

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  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.

词形变化

more brackish comparative most brackish superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
brackishly brackishness brackish water nonbrackish unbrackish

词源

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.
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