It had no taste, except, perhaps, that it was a little saltish.
"Sidonia The Sorceress V1"
William Mienhold
The termination in ish may be accounted in some sort a degree of comparison, by which the signification is diminished below the positive, as black, blackish, or tending to blackness; salt, saltish, or having a little taste of salt; they therefore admit no comparison.
"A Grammar of the English Tongue"
Samuel Johnson
All kinds of insects are swarming in the putrid fluid, and a saltish bitter adds to its nauseating flavor.
"Eight Years' Wandering in Ceylon"
Samuel White Baker