briny

adj

1. Of, pertaining to, resembling or containing brine; salty.

   “on the briny deep”

2. (figuratively)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

1. (slang)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”