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.
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.”
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