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pyebald

pyebald is the obsolete spelling of piebald.

Meaning of piebald

Adjective

piebald (comparative more piebald, superlative most piebald)

  1. Spotted or blotched, especially in black and white.
    • […] she kept several piebald mice and a restless revolving squirrel.1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC
  2. (figuratively) Of mixed character, heterogeneous.
    • And at the present day, the wanton introduction of scientific terms from the Greek and Latin, and of phrases from the French, threatens to render our tongue still more piebald, heterogeneous and unwieldy.1839, Charles Hodge, Henry Boynton Smith, “The Origin and Variations of the English Language”, in The Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review, volume XI, page 544

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Forms of pyebald

Adjective
comparativemore pyebald
superlativemost pyebald
Noun
pluralpyebalds

Questions about pyebald

What is pyebald the obsolete spelling of?
Pyebald is the obsolete spelling of piebald.

Words near pyebald in the dictionary

  1. Pye Corner
  2. pye-dog
  3. pye-dogs
  4. Pyeatt
  5. Pyeatts
  6. pyebald
  7. pyebalds
  8. Pyecombe
  9. pyel-
  10. pyelectasis
  11. pyelectatic

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