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

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 Darwin, Erasmus

El Heymedj, a station having sweet and saltish water.

From Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred by Burckhardt, John Lewis

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

Middle Miocene.—Sandstone containing quartz, intercalated with marl of a saltish taste.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888 by Various