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
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
Tea made with saltish water, and salt sheep's milk, have been the only drawbacks of the six days' march.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
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
Salsaginous, sal-saj′i-nus, adj. saltish: growing in brackish places.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
