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Brinded

//ˈbɹɪndɪd// adj, name

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Adjective
  1. 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. 2
    Frowning, looking sour or angry. dialectal

    "Lawks, doant be clummed by Babbin Enapp, 'Sa bibbling, boostering, brinded chap, A dinderhead hadge-boar!"

Adjective
  1. 1
    having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

Etymology

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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