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brinily

brinily adverb: in a briny or salty way.

Adverb

brinily (comparative more brinily, superlative most brinily)

  1. In a briny or salty way.
    • O they were speechful faces, gazing insistent, / Some as with smiles, / Some as with slow-born tears that brinily trundled / Over the wrecked Cheeks that were fair in their flush-time, ash now with anguish.1914, Thomas Hardy, In Front of the Landscape

Forms of brinily

comparativemore brinily
superlativemost brinily

Origin of brinily

From briny + -ly.

Questions about brinily

What does brinily mean?
Brinily means in a briny or salty way.
What part of speech is brinily?
Brinily is an adverb.

Words near brinily in the dictionary

  1. brinicles
  2. brinie
  3. brinier
  4. brinies
  5. briniest
  6. brinily
  7. brininess
  8. brining
  9. brinish
  10. brinishness
  11. brinjal

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