brindled

/ˈbɹɪndəld/

brindled adjective: of a brownish, tawny or gray colour, with streaks or spots; streaky, spotted. Also the simple past and past participle of brindle.

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Adjective

brindled (comparative more brindled, superlative most brindled)

Of a brownish, tawny or gray colour, with streaks or spots; streaky, spotted.
- The palace in a woody vale they found,
  High raised of stone; a shaded space around;
  Where mountain wolves and brindled lions roam,
  (By magic tamed,) familiar to the dome.1725–1726, Homer, “Book 10”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC
- 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...1853, Melville, Cock-A-Doodle-Doo!
Synonyms:

brindlish

Also used as

brindled is also the simple past and past participle of brindle.

Examples of brindled in a sentence

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.1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of Black Peter, Norton, published 2005, page 982:
Some brindled curs hurried from beneath the houses to sniff at Flo […]1934, George Orwell, chapter 4, in Burmese Days:

Synonyms of brindled

brindlish

Forms of brindled

comparative	more brindled
superlative	most brindled

Origin of brindled

An alteration of brinded, probably by association with speckled, grizzled etc.

Words formed from brindled

brindled gnu

Phrases with brindled

brindled gnus

Questions about brindled

What does brindled mean?: Brindled means of a brownish, tawny or gray colour, with streaks or spots; streaky, spotted.
How do you use brindled in a sentence?: 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.
What part of speech is brindled?: Brindled is an adjective.
How do you pronounce brindled?: Brindled is pronounced /ˈbɹɪndəld/.

Words near brindled in the dictionary

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