brindle
brindle noun: a streaky colouration in animals.
Noun
brindle (usually uncountable, plural brindles)
- A streaky colouration in animals.
- An animal so coloured.
- I snatch at the puppy closest to me, the brindle, which is limp in my hand, and shove it down my shirt.2011, Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones, Bloomsbury (2017), page 235
Adjective
brindle (comparative more brindle, superlative most brindle)
Verb
brindle (third-person singular simple present brindles, present participle brindling, simple past and past participle brindled)
- To form streaks of a different color.
- Sorely too as I laboured and toiled, the reward of toil would not come ; already my back began to curve, and my hair to brindle itself with gray, yet I saw no luck before me.1841, The Metropolitan - Volume 30, page 226
- It is the perfect opposition of dark and light that brindles the tiger with gold flame and dark flame.1925, D.H. Lawrence, Reflections on the Death of Porcupine and Other Essays
Proper noun capitalized: Brindle
Brindle (countable and uncountable, plural Brindles)
- A small village and civil parish in Chorley borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD5924).
- A surname.
brindle meaning in Tamil and Malayalam
brindle in Tamil
- பழுப்புப் புள்ளிகள்
brindle in Malayalam
- brownish, tawny, brown
- തവിട്ടുനിറത്തിൽ പുള്ളിയും പൊട്ടും ഉള്ള, മഞ്ഞ കലർന്ന തവിട്ടു നിറമായ, കഷായ, രുമ്ര, തവിട്ടുനിറമായ, ആതാമ്ര
Synonyms of brindle
Forms of brindle
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | brindles |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more brindle |
| superlative | most brindle |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | brindles |
| present participle | brindling |
| past participle | brindled |
| past | brindled |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Brindles |
Origin of brindle
Back-formation from brindled, a variant of brinded (“streaked, spotted”), apparently reanalyzed as brindle + -ed. Attested from the late seventeenth century.
From Old English burna (“stream, brook”) + hyll (“hill”). The surname could either derive from the village in England or be an Americanized spelling of South German Brindl and Bründl.
Words formed from brindle
Questions about brindle
- What does brindle mean?
- Brindle means a streaky colouration in animals.
- What is brindle in Tamil?
- Brindle in Tamil is பழுப்புப் புள்ளிகள். See Brindle meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is brindle?
- Brindle can be a noun, an adjective, a verb or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of brindle?
- The plural of brindle is brindles.
Words near brindle in the dictionary
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