Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A brindled color.
- n. A brindled animal.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state of being brinded; a color or mixture of colors, of which gray is the base, with bands of a darker gray or black color: as, “a natural brindle,” Richardson, Clarissa Harlowe.
- n. A name of the mudfish or bowfin, Amia calva. See cut under Amiidæ.
Wiktionary
- n. A streaky colouration in animals.
- n. An animal so coloured.
- adj. Having such a colouration; brindled
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state of being brindled.
- n. A brindled color; also, that which is brindled.
- adj. Brindled.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats
Etymologies
- Back-formation from brindled. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“NEW PORT RICHEY - Seven days after he was born, Thomas James Carter Jr. was mauled to death Wednesday by his parents 'dog, described as a brindle pit bull terrier by the Pasco County Sheriff's Office.”
“An 'satins rich as cream thet grows on our ol' brindle's milk;”
“Ibilao have the same dog in two colors, the black and the "brindle”
“oh, i had it right the first time. but now i realize "brindle" probably won't phase her at all; she tends to dogs.”
“oh! not hunter? darn. still, "brindle" should give her a start.”
“On the porch, he held a brindle male by the scruff.”
“Yes | No | Report from Cgull wrote 2 weeks 1 day ago pit bull/great dane mix Tigger had the face and color of a brindle pit bull, the size, heart and temperment of a great dane, would'nt hurt a thing.”
“My first dogs name - Boo, Amego, a brindle great dane/pit bull mix - tiger, Blue and (lol) Sharona!”
“Her mother was black lab and beagle, and her father was black lab and pitbull, so she is a black lab with brown pitbull brindle on her legs and face, and she barks like a beagle!”
“The body of a brown brindle-and-white pit bull, which was buried in a shallow grave, was unearthed by Humane Society officers behind an apartment building.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘brindle’.
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Colors/Patterns/Prints/Textures
fritillary, chartreuse, tortoise-shell, brindle, burnt orange, cerulean, amaranth, sandy, amber, mold, fungus, kiwi and 65 more...
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VNCle
N stands for 'nasal', not 'n'
pimple, bungle, spindle, handle, amble, humble, simple, dimple, winkle, tinkle, single, dingle and 53 more...
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Color Words for Shoes
Vendors can get oddly creative.
amaranth, brindle, iguana, slate black, madder brown, bison, pinecone, seal brown, forest night, burnt orange, monument, beet red and 399 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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schinders's Words
persiflage, preterition, quidnunc, finick, termagant, otiose, magniloquent, weltschmerz, schadenfreude, piehole, malevolent, susurrus and 132 more...
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discoveries
These are lexical items new to me that I've discovered in actual use (i.e. not in dictionaries, lists, or this site).
Looking back over this list, I haven't the slightest idea what mos...haymow, hawsepipe, stridor, bariatric, autotelic, apotropaic, cyanotype, tourelle, autobody, zudecca, stifado, corbeille and 1073 more...
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harrisj's Words
skeumorph, liminal, enervated, essential, moiety, motley, haphazard, bone-picker, resolute, petard, jigsaw, schism and 117 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, B
bloviate, bejesus, brouhaha, behoove, bodacious, bamboozle, banshee, bub, bolus, blob, bubbly, bleb and 414 more...
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the omnibus
preponderance, idioglossia, acumen, heteronym, flux, anacoluthon, metonymy, impetus, constellation, exegesis, revelatory, cloistered and 877 more...
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Oblivion
By David Foster Wallace
ossify, reverie, hypergeometric, emetic, mien, cruciform, accreted, perpend, rheostat, predilections, coccyx, hirsute and 178 more...
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...:::bella:::...
originally started as an attempt to collect words I found visually and auditorially beautiful, as well as psychically evocative, this has become nothing more than a grab bag of word curiosities, a ...
bergamot, jambalaya, bee's knees, heliotrope, hosanna, gamboge, aureole, filial, madrigal, multilingual, sacrosanct, sojourn and 1072 more...
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The Golem's Eye
Words and phrases from Jonathan Stroud's book, The Golem's Eye.
ordure, widdershins, cop, stipple, ostler, struts, minaret, chemise, remonstrate, concussion, wicket, vamoose and 249 more...
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wordrainbow
A big list of color names for use on wordrainbow.com
emerald, cherry, coffee, cream, almond, gold, kiwi, green, grass green, aquamarine, beet red, sepia and 714 more...
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Pelage
Words used to describe the color and pattern of mammalian fur.
agouti, brindle, calico, tortoiseshell, roan, bay, bluepoint, claybank, ginger, palomino, cameo, chinchilla and 33 more...
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The Crow Road
Words encountered while reading Iain Banks's terrific "The Crow Road"
machair, brindle, nimrod, cullen skink, lochan, the kyles of bute, kip, gateaux blaster, condign, percussive cremation, ballast mound, braw and 71 more...
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spellczecher's Words
diaphanous, perambulate, mojitos, chesterfield, glom, pinking shears, brusque, jurisprudence, hegemony, furuncular, quondam, nomenclature and 36 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for brindle.
qroqqa adj. = brindled
The last of the line, Cap, a brindle mongrel who looked like a worn carpet-bag, caught the secret of vitality from his indomitable mistress and lived to be sixteen, when Aunt Margery, with heavy heart but steady hand, administered the ether that put a merciful end to the miserable burden of his years.
—James Thurber, 1952, 'Daguerreotype of a Lady', in The Thurber Album Jul 10, 2008