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Definition: Brindle |
BrindleAdjective1. Having a gray or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "brindle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
Synonyms: BrindleSynonyms: brinded (adj), brindled (adj), tabby (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Brindle |
| English words defined with "brindle": Boston bull, Boston terrier. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Brindle" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 63.41% of the time. "Brindle" is used about 41 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 63.41% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Noun (singular) | 34.15% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.44% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 41 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "brindle" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Brindle | Last name | 1,000 | 11,404 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "brindle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | scheckig (blotchy, brindly, dappled, gaudy, motley, patchy, piebald, skewbald, spotted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Στικτόσ (Pinto). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | brigginagh (partly coloured, pied, spotted), breckey (bespeckle, chequer, chequering, dapple, dappled, embroider, freckle, jotting, mottle, pebble, rough, sharpen, spot, sprinkle, variegate, variegation), breckan (plaid, tartan), breck (brown trout, chequered, dapple-grey, dotty, mackerel, mottled, piebald, pied, pocked, speckle; trout-coloured, speckled, spot, spotted, spotty, tartan, trout, variegated), brackan, brack (bracket). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | indlebray Mancha (blemish, blot, blotch, blur, cloud, dapple, defilement, flaw, fleck, Guidon, marking ink, reproach, scar, smear, smirch, smudge, soil, splodge, splotch, spot, stain, taint, tarnish), Malha (Jerusalem, knitting, loop, mesh, quoit, stitch, sweater, thrashing, threshing). (various references) ceannrach, ceannraig (a brindle or horse's head-gear). (various references) Animal Abigarrado, Abigarrado (motley, mottled, particolored, particoloured, varicolored, varicoloured, variegated). (various references) Строкатість. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "brindle": brindled, brindles. (additional references) | |
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"Brindle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Arrindell, Berindei, Brandley, Brendell, brendle, Bribdale, Brindex, Brinol, Brinsden, brundle, Brunello, drindle, Frindle, Prindl, Rindel. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "brindle" (pronounced bri"ndul) |
| 5 | -i" n d u l | bindle, dwindle, kindle, rekindle, spindle, swindle, Windle. |
| 4 | -n d u l | bundle, candle, fondle, handle, manhandle, mishandle, panhandle, Rundle, sandal, scandal, trundle, unbundle, vandal. |
| 3 | -d u l | addle, alkaloidal, antipodal, astraddle, backpedal, beadle, Bedell, befuddle, Boodle, bridal, bridle, caboodle, caudal, caudle, Coddle, colloidal, cradle, cuddle, dawdle, Doodle, feudal, fiddle, genocidal, girdle, homicidal, huddle, hurdle, idle, idol, idyll, intermodal, intertidal, ladle, medal, meddle, middle, minoxidil, modal, model, mollycoddle, muddle, needle, noodle, paddle, pedal, peddle, Piddle, poodle, puddle, pyramidal, remodel, rhizoidal, riddle, Ruddle, saddle, Seidel, sidle, straddle, suicidal, supermodel, tidal, toddle, twaddle, Tweedle, twiddle, Waddle, Wedel, widdle, yodel. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: blinder. | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-i-l-n-r" | |
-1 letter: berlin, binder, bindle, birled, bridle, brined, inbred, rebind. | |
-2 letters: bider, bield, birle, blend, blind, bride, brine, diner, idler, liber, lined, liner, rebid, riled. | |
-3 letters: bend, bide, bier, bile, bind, bine, bird, birl, bled, blin, bred, bren, brie, brin, deil, deli, deni, diel, dine, dire, dirl, drib, idle, ired, lend, lied, lien, lier, line. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-i-l-n-r" | |
+1 letter: bilander, blinders, brindled, brindles, linebred, rendible, unbridle. | |
+2 letters: bandolier, bilanders, blinkered, breadline, drinkable, unbridled, unbridles, unridable. | |
+3 letters: banderilla, bandoliers, begirdling, biliverdin, blandisher, blundering, borderline, breadlines, brownfield, debonairly, drinkables, incredible, incredibly, linerboard, mindblower, panbroiled, reblending, rebuilding, redoubling, timberland, unlimbered. | |
+4 letters: banderillas, bedraggling, bedriveling, besprinkled, bewildering, biliverdins, blandishers, blueprinted, borderlines, brownfields, cinderblock, dingleberry, discernable, discernible, discernibly, hornblendic, lamebrained, linerboards, mindblowers, spellbinder, timberlands, undesirable, undesirably, undrinkable, unliberated. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 72 69 6E 64 6C 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .-. .. -. -.. .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100100 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B r i n d l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0072 0069 006E 0064 006C 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36847580707871 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Usage Frequency 7. Names: Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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