Meanings (ES + gloss)
salobral • salobre
Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries.
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…
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.
desabrido
Distasteful; unpleasant; not appealing to the taste.
Therefore the bread he had to eat Seemed brackish, less like corn than tares;
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