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单词 brindle
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brindleadj.n.

/ˈbrɪnd(ə)l/
Etymology: Apparently deduced < brindled, as if this consisted of brindle + -ed.
A. adj.
= brinded adj., brindled adj.
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > stripiness > [adjective] > streaked
brinded1430
straked1537
branded1561
flaked1577
pencilled1592
streaked1600
brandy1608
striated1646
straky1650
bestreakeda1658
tabby1665
whipped1673
brindle1676
brindled1678
striate1678
rowy1742
streaky1747
virgated1803
roded1841
fibrilloso-striate1846
roey1850
tabbied1861
rody1864
1676 London Gaz. No. 1145/4 A..white Mastiff Dog with half his face brindle, and large brindle spots on his sides.
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. iii. 12 Two fine cows, one brindle and the other white.
1807 Salmagundi 24 Nov. 363 The old lady..lost..a fine brindled cow.
1862 Sat. Rev. 5 July 19 The longhorned [English cattle]..of which brindle or brindle and white are common colours.
1886 Engineer 1 Oct. 265 The quotation of brindle bricks at date is about 18s. per 1000.
B. n.
1. Brindled colour.
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > stripiness > [noun] > streakiness
brindle1696
striaturea1728
streakinessa1750
rowiness1842
striation1851
1696 London Gaz. No. 3242/4 An old Dutch Mastiff..of a lightish Brindle.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. lxxviii. 257 The artificial jet, however, yielding apace to the natural brindle.
2. A brindled dog.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun] > defined by colour
brindle1710
yellow dog1746
tricolour1905
iron-grey1928
particolour1961
1710 London Gaz. No. 4747/4 Lost..a Lurcher Bitch, a Brindle with a black Mussel.
1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 48 Of the three dogs, the first a brindle, the second a yellow.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2018).

brindlev.

Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: bridle v.
Etymology: Apparently a variant of bridle v. (compare sense 4 at that entry), with insertion of -n-.
dialect.
‘To be irritated, to show resentment, to bridle up’.
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1875 J. H. Nodal & G. Milner Gloss. Lancs. Dial.: Pt. I 58 He brindled up as soon as aw spoke to him.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online September 2020).
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