brindle

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A streaky colouration in animals. uncountable,usually
  2. An animal so coloured. uncountable,usually
    — I snatch at the puppy closest to me, the brindle, which is limp in my hand, and shove it down my shirt.
动词 v.
  1. 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.
形容词 adj.
  1. Having such a colouration; brindled.
    — It is brindle. Stripes of black and brown ride its ribs like a zebra’s.

词形变化

brindles plural more brindle comparative most brindle superlative brindles present,singular,third-person brindling participle,present brindled participle,past brindled past

词汇关系

衍生词
Treeing Tennessee Brindle

词源

词源 1
Back-formation from brindled, a variant of brinded (“streaked, spotted”), apparently reanalyzed as brindle + -ed. Attested from the late seventeenth century.
词源 2
Back-formation from brindled, a variant of brinded (“streaked, spotted”), apparently reanalyzed as brindle + -ed. Attested from the late seventeenth century.
词源 3
Back-formation from brindled, a variant of brinded (“streaked, spotted”), apparently reanalyzed as brindle + -ed. Attested from the late seventeenth century.
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