"shit-brindle" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more shit-brindle [comparative], most shit-brindle [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} shit-brindle (comparative more shit-brindle, superlative most shit-brindle)
  1. (US, vulgar) having a light, unglamorous shade of brown color Tags: US, vulgar
    Sense id: en-shit-brindle-en-adj-OwNHEWAR Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header

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          "ref": "1942, Maurine Whipple, The Giant Joshua",
          "text": "Eliza and Charles had to show him how the perfected blue-dyed yarn could be colored green by scalding in yellow dye made out of rabbit-brush blossoms or wild greasewood; black dye could be made from logwood and copperas vitriol; dark brown from the walnuts Brother Hamblin was raising in Santa Clara; olive green from the creosote leaves, and 'shit-brindle' from wild sage.",
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          "text": "1995, \"One-Eyed Jack\" as found in Resurrection and Reclamation: The Collected Works of S. Darnbrook Colson compiled and edited by Elrod Stanton\nThe walls of the \"game room,\" as we called it, were shit-brindle yellow. We could never get Bennuci to repaint the damned thing. Said he liked the color. Said it reminded him of his bedroom when he was a boy. We always made joked about what the rest of his house must've looked like: Baby puke green, Menstruation red, and so on."
        },
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          "ref": "2005, Don Smith, Ricochet Blues",
          "text": "Ain't nothing bright about it but its namesake, even the birds are a shit-brindle-brown streaked with a dusty-ochre.",
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        {
          "ref": "2009, Courtney Eldridge, The Generosity of Women",
          "text": "But the best part was that he'd nailed it: the color Sonja chose for that psycho-chromatic study was a most disturbing combination of brown, rust, and mustard--it was a slightly metallic dark-gold puke color, basically. No, it was shit brindle to a T. Genius […]",
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          "ref": "1942, Maurine Whipple, The Giant Joshua",
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          "ref": "2009, Courtney Eldridge, The Generosity of Women",
          "text": "But the best part was that he'd nailed it: the color Sonja chose for that psycho-chromatic study was a most disturbing combination of brown, rust, and mustard--it was a slightly metallic dark-gold puke color, basically. No, it was shit brindle to a T. Genius […]",
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