单词 | brackish |
释义 | brackishadj. 1. Of a somewhat salt or saline taste; partly fresh, partly salt. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > [adjective] > brackish or briny bracka1522 brackisha1552 bracky1582 brinish1594 briny1612 breachy1662 brak1793 a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) VII. 114 The Water is a litle brakkische. 1594 C. Marlowe & T. Nashe Dido i. ii The southern wind with brackish breath. a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 82 Fresh water he call'd it, but we found it brackish. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 128 This saltness increases until the water becomes decidedly brackish. 2. figurative and transferred. a. Spoilt by mixture, as of sea-water with fresh. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [adjective] > mixed with something > adulterated sophisticatec1400 adulterine1542 adulterous1547 corrupted1563 sophistered1567 corrupt1581 carded1596 adultered1603 sophisticated1607 adulterated1610 brackish1611 adulterate1634 sophistical1658 unsincere1664 doctored1784 alloyed1806 filled1887 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. vi. 463/2 Retaining at this day the [English] language..though brackish with the mixture of vulgar Irish. b. Nauseous, distasteful. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > unsavouriness > [adjective] > disgusting queasyc1450 walsh1513 filthy1533 wallowish1548 foul1560 maumish1580 nasty1601 distastable1607 distasteful1611 disgustfula1625 nauseous1649 fulsome1694 mawkisha1697 disgusting1754 pukey1852 brackish1871 wambly1899 bogging1973 feechie1975 angin1994 1871 D. G. Rossetti Dante at Verona lv The bread..Seemed brackish, less like corn than tares. c. Nautical (quots. 1867, 1881). ΚΠ 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Introd. 7 The pithy conciseness of the brackish tongue renders it eminently useful on duty. 1881 G. F. Chambers Smyth's Cycle Celestial Objects (ed. 2) 2 Certain brackish rhymes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). † brackishv. Obsolete. rare. transitive. To render brackish. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > [verb (transitive)] > render brackish brackish1637 1637 T. Heywood Jupiter & Io in Dial. in Wks. (1874) VI. 267 O, brackish not your waters with your teares. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < adj.a1552v.1637 |
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