briny

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The sea. slang
    — That afternoon Mr Slater had been for what he termed "a blow of the briny," as his custom was on a fine day. He was returning in the dusk and had crossed the spacious promenade when, at a corner, he almost ran into the broad figure of a policeman who stood talking to a woman on the path.
形容词 adj.
  1. Of, pertaining to, resembling or containing brine; salty.
    — on the briny deep
  2. Acerbic; unsentimental. figuratively
    — [Julian] Barnes wrote “Nothing to Be Frightened Of” when he was 62. He just turned 80. This briny English writer, author of “Flaubert’s Parrot” (1984) and a winner of the Booker Prize, for “The Sense of an Ending” (2011), now has a rare form of blood cancer, treatable but exhausting and uncurable.

词形变化

brinier comparative more briny comparative briniest superlative most briny superlative the briny canonical

词汇关系

衍生词
brinily brininess unbriny

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English brine
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English briny
From brine + -y.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English brine
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English briny
From brine + -y.
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