Dialect or archaic word meaning resembling or containing brine; salty.
From 'brine' (saltwater) plus the suffix '-y' meaning 'having the quality of'; this formation follows common English patterns for creating adjectives from nouns.
This word is a linguistic fossil—it appears in regional dialects and old texts but has largely been replaced by 'briny' (same meaning, different vowel). Language naturalizes these variations differently in different places!
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