"brindled" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈbɹɪndəld/ Forms: more brindled [comparative], most brindled [superlative]
Etymology: An alteration of brinded, probably by association with speckled, grizzled etc. Head templates: {{en-adj}} brindled (comparative more brindled, superlative most brindled)
  1. of a brownish, tawny or gray colour, with streaks or spots; streaky, spotted Derived forms: brindled gnu Translations (streaky, spotted): strakatý (Czech), mourovatý (Czech), ruskeankirjava (Finnish), harmaankirjava (Finnish), gesprenkelt (German), gestreift (German), pettyes (Hungarian), csíkos (Hungarian), foltos (Hungarian), tarka (Hungarian), riabhach (Irish), تكیر (tekir) (Ottoman Turkish), пятни́стый (pjatnístyj) (english: spotted) (Russian), полоса́тый (polosátyj) (english: striped) (Russian), пёстрый (pjóstryj) (Russian), riabhach (Scottish Gaelic), aleonado (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-brindled-en-adj-5pD6wd5f Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 82 18 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 69 31 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 80 20 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 85 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 82 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 80 20 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 77 23 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 81 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 81 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations: 78 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 80 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations: 79 21 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 82 18

Verb

IPA: /ˈbɹɪndəld/
Etymology: An alteration of brinded, probably by association with speckled, grizzled etc. Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} brindled
  1. simple past and past participle of brindle Tags: form-of, participle, past Form of: brindle
    Sense id: en-brindled-en-verb-sinusL-x
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          "ref": "1725–1726, Homer, “Book 10”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:",
          "text": "The palace in a woody vale they found,\nHigh raised of stone; a shaded space around;\nWhere mountain wolves and brindled lions roam,\n(By magic tamed,) familiar to the dome.",
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          "ref": "1853, Melville, Cock-A-Doodle-Doo!:",
          "text": "All round me were tokens of a divided empire. The old grass and the new grass were striving together. In the low wet swales the verdure peeped out in vivid green ; beyond, on the mountains, lay light patches of snow, strangely relieved against their russet sides; all the humped hills looked like brindled kine in the shivers.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of Black Peter, Norton, published 2005, page 982:",
          "text": "And there, in the middle of it was the man himself—his face twisted like a lost soul in torment, and his great brindled beard stuck upwards in his agony.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "1934, George Orwell, chapter 4, in Burmese Days:",
          "text": "Some brindled curs hurried from beneath the houses to sniff at Flo […]",
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        "of a brownish, tawny or gray colour, with streaks or spots; streaky, spotted"
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          "brownish",
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          "tawny",
          "tawny"
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          "gray",
          "gray"
        ],
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          "streaky",
          "streaky"
        ],
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          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "streaky, spotted",
          "word": "strakatý"
        },
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "streaky, spotted",
          "word": "mourovatý"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "streaky, spotted",
          "word": "ruskeankirjava"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "streaky, spotted",
          "word": "harmaankirjava"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "streaky, spotted",
          "word": "gesprenkelt"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "streaky, spotted",
          "word": "gestreift"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "streaky, spotted",
          "word": "pettyes"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "streaky, spotted",
          "word": "csíkos"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "streaky, spotted",
          "word": "foltos"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "streaky, spotted",
          "word": "tarka"
        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "streaky, spotted",
          "word": "riabhach"
        },
        {
          "code": "ota",
          "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
          "roman": "tekir",
          "sense": "streaky, spotted",
          "word": "تكیر"
        },
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          "code": "ru",
          "english": "spotted",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "pjatnístyj",
          "sense": "streaky, spotted",
          "word": "пятни́стый"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "english": "striped",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "polosátyj",
          "sense": "streaky, spotted",
          "word": "полоса́тый"
        },
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "pjóstryj",
          "sense": "streaky, spotted",
          "word": "пёстрый"
        },
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          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "streaky, spotted",
          "word": "riabhach"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "streaky, spotted",
          "word": "aleonado"
        }
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          "text": "Apples, these I mean, unspeakably fair [...] - 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, [...]",
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      "word": "riabhach"
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