saltish
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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
Middle Miocene.—Sandstone containing quartz, intercalated with marl of a saltish taste.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888 by Various
They are sweet, saltish, bitter, astringent, sour, and pungent.
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 by Kisari Mohan Ganguli
The termination ish added to adjectives, expresses a slight degree of quality below the comparative; as, black, blackish; salt, saltish.
From English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Samuel Kirkham
Lymph, limf, n. water: a colourless or faintly-yellowish fluid in animal bodies, of a rather saltish taste, and with an alkaline reaction.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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