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

Whether all Fruits, Herbs, Earth, Fountains, are naturally saltish in the Isle of Cyprus?

From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Oldenburg, Henry

Why does a bottle of fresh water, corked and let down 30 or 40 feet into the sea, often come up again with the water saltish, although the cork be still in its place?

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 491, May 28, 1831 by Various

The sisters led the way, and the very saltish man followed.

From The Corner House Girls Under Canvas How they reached Pleasant Cove and what happened afterward by Hill, Grace Brooks

Possibly they may be attracted by the saltish taste, but the result is that they get ill and their stomachs are distended.

From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala by Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane)