Brackish vs Brutish - What's the difference?
brackish | brutish |
(of water) Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries.
* 1638 Herbert, Sir Thomas Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique
* 1992, , Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 4.
* 2004, , Random House.
; unpleasant; not appealing to the taste. (rfex)
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As adjectives the difference between brackish and brutish
is that brackish is (of water) salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries while brutish is of, or in the manner of a brute.brackish
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Adjective
(en adjective)- ...by a low cour?e and too long ?porting with the briny Ocean it ta?ts bracki?h and in?alubrious...
- On all sides a powerful brackish marshland odor, the odor of damp, and decay, and black earth, black water.
- The water we took on at Chatham Isle is now brackish & without a dash of brandy in it, my stomach rebels.
Derived terms
* brackishnessbrutish
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Quotations
* 1651 , (Thomas Hobbes), *: No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish , and short. * 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 3, ch. IX, ''Working Aristocracy *: The haggard despair of Cotton-factory, Coal-mine operatives, Farm-labourers, in these days, is painful to behold; but not so painful, hideous to the inner sense, as the brutish god-forgetting Profit-and-Loss Philosophy, and Life-theory, which we hear jangled on all hands of us […] * {{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty , date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist)citation, passage=But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}