briny
adjective
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L21750 on Wikidata ↗noun
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L317404 on Wikidata ↗Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹaɪni/
adj
Etymology: Etymology tree English brine Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English briny From brine + -y.
- Of, pertaining to, resembling or containing brine; salty.
“on the briny deep”
- Acerbic; unsentimental.
“[Julian] Barnes wrote “Nothing to Be Frightened Of” when he was 62. He just turned 80. This briny English writer, author of “Flaubert’s Parrot” (1984) and a winner of the Booker Prize, for “The Sense of an Ending” (2011), now has a rare form of blood cancer, treatable but exhausting and uncurable.”
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree English brine Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English briny From brine + -y.
- The sea.
“That afternoon Mr Slater had been for what he termed "a blow of the briny," as his custom was on a fine day. He was returning in the dusk and had crossed the spacious promenade when, at a corner, he almost ran into the broad figure of a policeman who stood talking to a woman on the path.”
“I thought I would go to the sea and shrink down very tiny / And slide inside the telephone wire that runs under the briny”