Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Tawny or grayish with streaks or spots of a darker color.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Brinded; variegated with streaks of different colors.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having dark streaks or spots on a gray or tawny ground; brinded.
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
- An alteration of brinded, probably by association with speckled, grizzled etc. (Wiktionary)
- Alteration of Middle English brended, probably from brende, past participle of brennen, to burn, from Old Norse brenna; see gwher- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Within the last two days they had also observed that the gnoo was not of the same sort as the one which they had seen so long, but a variety which Swinton told them was called the brindled gnoo; it was, however, in every other respect the same animal, as to its motions and peculiarities.”
“In colour it was a kind of brindled red, and the hair on its back grew against the lie of the rest of its coat.”
“In the shape of their bodies and tails, in their general ground colour, and in the "brindled" or tiger-like stripes that could be perceived upon their cheeks, neck, and shoulders.”
“It is of a bluish colour -- hence the name, and "brindled," or striped along the sides.”
“Steve is approached by a man who wants to buy Mike to fight against a big brindled pit bull.”
Collecting My Thoughts for the Moment (scratching my head and doing my best James Dean)
“The dog Eli showed her was an ugly thing with wiry brindled hair and a squint.”
“When it finally did, she found herself gazing into the gentle eyes of an enormous brindled beast sitting in front of a crackling fire on a crude stone hearth.”
“But I've no news to send you now;Only I've lost my brindled cow,And that has greatly sunk my dairy.”
The Guardian: Poem of the week: The Epistle of Deborah Dough by Mary Leapor
“He was a massive brindled Highland named Rupert, with sleepy eyes and horns as thick as small trees at the base.”
“He pushed me closer, and when I did not respond, he grasped my wrist and planted my hand firmly against the brindled surface.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘brindled’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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abjure, unswear, state, rescission, indemnification, ab, reny, abnegate, vitiated, vitiate, adumbrated, abash and 378 more...
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ordure, widdershins, cop, stipple, ostler, struts, minaret, chemise, remonstrate, concussion, wicket, vamoose and 249 more...
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iRosaceae
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for brindled.
bilby "Apples, these I mean, unspeakably fair,--apples not of Discord, but Concord! Yet not so rare but that the homeliest may have a share. Painted by the frosts, some a uniform clear bright yellow, or red, or crimson, as if their spheres had regularly revolved, and enjoyed the influence of the sun on all sides alike,--some with the faintest pink blush imaginable,--some brindled with deep red streaks like a cow, or with hundreds of fine blood-red rays running regularly from the stem-dimple to the blossom-end, like meridional lines, on a straw-colored ground,--some touched with a greenish rust, like a fine lichen, here and there, with crimson blotches or eyes more or less confluent and fiery when wet,--and others gnarly, and freckled or peppered all over on the stem side with fine crimson spots on a white ground, as if accidentally sprinkled from the brush of Him who paints the autumn leaves." - 'Wild Apples', Henry David Thoreau. Dec 14, 2007
seanahan I try to say Macbeth as often as possible. Oct 24, 2007
sionnach synonym of brinded, like that loudmouth Scottish moggy at the beginning of Macbeth*.
* Or, if you think it's unlucky to invoke it by name on Wordie, "the Scottish play".
But it's time to go feed my own, non-brinded, moggies, Boris and Natasha. Later, wordiewonks! Oct 23, 2007