brindle
/bɹˈɪndəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.37 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having such a colouration; brindled.
name
A small village and civil parish in Chorley borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD5924).
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "I snatch at the puppy closest to me, the brindle, which is limp in my hand, and shove it down my shirt."
- "It is brindle. Stripes of black and brown ride its ribs like a zebra’s."
- "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."
- "It is the perfect opposition of dark and light that brindles the tiger with gold flame and dark flame."
- "The darkest areas (the points) may brindle or become bleached by brilliant sunlight, especially in chocolate and white points."
Etymology
Back-formation from brindled, a variant of brinded (“streaked, spotted”), apparently reanalyzed as brindle + -ed. Attested from the late seventeenth century.
Origin
- Source language: Old English
Word Breakdown
- Root: burna, Brindl
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in People.
Inflected Forms
brindles (plural)
more brindle (comparative)
most brindle (superlative)
brindles (present, singular)
brindling (participle, present)
brindled (participle, past)
brindled (past)