brinded

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Especially of the fur or skin of animals: having a patchy or streaky pattern, usually brown or grey in colour; brindled. archaic,dialectal
    — Thrice the brinded Cat hath mew'd.
  2. Frowning, looking sour or angry. dialectal
    — Lawks, doant be clummed by Babbin Enapp, 'Sa bibbling, boostering, brinded chap, A dinderhead hadge-boar!

词形变化

more brinded comparative most brinded superlative

词源

From Middle English brended (“burnt, branded”), from bren (“burned, branded”), from the past participle of brennen (“to burn”), from Old English bærnan (“to burn”). Also compare Old Norse brǫndóttr, Icelandic bröndóttr (“brindled”).
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