Definitions for saltish

saltish salt·ish

Spelling: [sawl-tish]
IPA: /ˈsɔl tɪʃ/

Saltish is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 178 anagrams from letters in saltish (ahilsst).

Definitions for saltish

adjective

  1. somewhat salty.

Origin of saltish

First recorded in 1470-80; salt1 + -ish1

Examples for saltish

Its taste is saltish, with a degree of roughness and astringency.

It was found to be saltish to the taste, and to dissolve readily in water.

It is limpid, like water, of a saltish taste, and without odor.

It has a saltish taste according to the accurate Baron Haller, not unlike the whey of milk, which it even resembles in smell.

The water is seen oozing forth from the many bogs, and has a saltish taste, impregnated with saltpetre and sulphur.

The water is perfectly clear, has a saltish taste, and at the spring is not unlike weak broth, though it has a disagreeable odor.

saltish this water may be, but nine-tenths of it is honest rain from heaven.'

The colours and the saltish taste of its surface are occasioned by a remainder of the Marine Acid.

Its taste is saltish, inclining to bitter; and it decrepitates on burning coals.

The saltish atmosphere is left behind, and the air tings with the sweetness of mountain and lake.

Word Value for saltish
Scrable

10

Words with friends

10

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