saltish
Example Sentences
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They sipped on their saltish Kashmiri pink tea a little longer instead of starting on the buffet their host had set out.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 23, 2017
People eat these berries and find them good, with a saltish, bitter taste, and yet a dash of sweetness.
From Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government by James Richardson
It has a saltish taste according to the accurate Baron Haller, not unlike the whey of milk, which it even resembles in smell.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
Its physical properties are known to every one—it is a thickish, nearly opaque fluid, of a peculiar odor, saltish taste, etc.
From Fruits of Philosophy A Treatise on the Population Question by Charles Knowlton
Brackish, brak′ish, adj. saltish: applied to water mixed with salt or with sea-water.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
