brackish

suolainen

epämiellyttävä puhekieltä salty 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

...by a low courſe and too long ſporting with the briny Ocean it taſts brackiſh and inſalubrious...

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.