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Definition: Piebald |
PiebaldAdjective1. Having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; "a jester dressed in motley"; "the painted desert,"; "a particolored dress"; "a piebald horse"; "pied daisies". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "piebald" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Note: Piebald \Pie"bald`\, adjective. [Pie the party-colored bird bald.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Piebald Party-coloured. A corruption of pie-balled, speckled like a pie. The words Ball, Dun, and Favel are frequently given as names to cows. "Ball" means the cow with a mark on its face; "Dun" means the cow of a dun or brownish-yellow colour; and "Favel" means the bay cow. (Ball, in Gaelic, means a mark; ballach, speckled.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: PiebaldSynonyms: motley (adj), multicolor (adj), multicolored (adj), multicolour (adj), multicoloured (adj), painted (adj), particolored (adj), particoloured (adj), pied (adj), varicolored (adj), varicoloured (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Piebald |
| English words defined with "piebald": motley, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured ♦ painted, particolored, particoloured, pied, Pyebald ♦ Sheld, Skewbald ♦ Tangun ♦ varicolored, varicoloured. (references) |
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| "Piebald" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 64.71% of the time. "Piebald" is used about 17 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 64.71% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (singular) | 35.29% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 17 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "piebald": motley multicolor culticolour multicolored multicoloured painted particolored particoloured piebald pied varicolored varicoloured. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
piebald | 139 |
lyrics piebald | 34 |
piebald dachshunds | 30 |
piebald dachshund | 24 |
piebald tab | 15 |
deer piebald | 9 |
horse piebald | 8 |
dachshund miniature piebald | 7 |
piebald ball pythons | 7 |
piebald pythons | 6 |
piebald ball python | 5 |
guitar piebald tab | 4 |
dachshunds miniature piebald | 3 |
hound piebald | 3 |
dachshund miniature piebald puppy | 3 |
bass piebald tab | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "piebald"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pullali (flea-bitten), laraman (harlequin, motley, pied, Pinto, spotty), kalë pullali (pinto). (various references) | |
Arabic | أبقع. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разнообразен (chequered, daedal, diverse, diversified, manifold, medley, multifarious, omnifarious, varicolored, varicoloured, varied, variegated, various), шарен кон, шарен (chequered, medley, motley, parti-colored, parti-coloured, party-colored, party-coloured, pied, roan, variegated, versicolored, versicoloured), кон на петна, най-различен, на петна (blotchy, dapple, mottled, punctate, skewbald, speckled, splotchy, spotted, spotty), пъстър (chequered, dapple, fancy, freckled, medley, motley, mottled, parti-colored, parti-coloured, party-colored, party-coloured, pied, roan, skewbald, varicolored, varicoloured, variegated). (various references) | |
Chinese | 花斑, 騅 . (various references) | |
Czech | strakatý (brindled, motley, mottled, pied, skewbald, speckled). (various references) | |
Danish | broget hest (piebald horse, skewbald horse). (various references) | |
Dutch | koepaard (piebald horse, skewbald horse), bonte (piebald horse, skewbald horse), bont paard (piebald horse, skewbald horse). (various references) | |
Farsi | پیسه , ناجور (Away, Cockeyed, Disparate, Dissimilar, Dissonant, Heterogeneous, Inapplicable, Inappropriate, Inconsistent, Incorrect, Inept, Misfit, Sorry, Uneven), خلنگ , ابلق (Pied), رنگارنگ (Colorful, Kaleidoscopic, Medley, Motley, Multicolored, Pied, Varied), دورنگ . (various references) | |
Finnish | kirjava hevonen (piebald horse, skewbald horse). (various references) | |
French | pie (pied, Pinto, Pius). (various references) | |
German | scheckig (blotchy, brindle, brindly, dappled, gaudy, motley, patchy, skewbald, spotted). (various references) | |
Greek | παρδαλόσ (brindled, dapple, dappled, motley, pied, roan). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tarkánfoltos. (various references) | |
Italian | pezzato (dappled, pied, Pinto, spotted). (various references) | |
Manx | breck (brindle, brown trout, chequered, dapple-grey, dotty, mackerel, mottled, pied, pocked, speckle; trout-coloured, speckled, spot, spotted, spotty, tartan, trout, variegated). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iebaldpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pigarço (erne), sarapintado (mottled, pepper-and-salt, pied, spotted, spotty), malhado (brindled, freckled, pied, pinto, tabby), heterogéneo (farraginous, medley, miscellaneous, promiscuous, scrappy, scratch), cavalo malhado (pinto), animal malhado. (various references) | |
Romanian | pag. (various references) | |
Russian | пегий (pinto, skewbald). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | šaren (gay, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, painted, party-colored, party-coloured, pied, printed, skewbald, speckled, spotted, variegated). (various references) | |
Spanish | pío (cheep, chirp, chirrup, fish, pious, Pius, skewbald), de varios colores (pied), caballo picazo, caballo pío. (various references) | |
Swedish | skäckig (Pinto), skäck (piebald horse, skewbald horse), fläckig (blotched, dapple, foxy, mealy, mottled, pied, punctate, soiled, spotted, spotty), brokig (brindled, chequered, dappled, gaudy, kaleidoscopic, motley, particolored, particoloured, party-colored, party-coloured, pied, scratch, varied, variegated). (various references) | |
Turkish | siyah beyaz benekli, benekli at (pie, Pinto), benekli (brindled, dappled, dotted, Dotty, maculated, mottled, pied, punctate, roan, speckled, splotchy, spotted, spotty), alacalı (dappled, harlequin, mottled, multicolored, multicoloured), alaca at. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | різношерстий (catch-all), ряба тварина, рябий (dappled, pockmarked, pocky, skewbald, speckled), гібрид (half breed, hybrid). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vá, g"m đủ các hạng; lẫn lộn cả. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "piebald": piebalds. (additional references) | |
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"Piebald" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: piebalds, Piedad, Pieraldo, Pybba. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "piebald" (pronounced pī"bô'ld) |
| 4 | -b ô' l d | mothballed, snowballed. |
| 3 | -ô' l d | overhauled, stonewalled. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: bipedal. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-i-l-p" | |
-1 letter: aliped, bailed, elapid, pleiad. | |
-2 letters: abide, ailed, baled, bield, biped, blade, ideal, padle, paled, pedal, pibal, pilea, piled, plaid, plead, plied. | |
-3 letters: abed, able, aide, aped, bade, bail, bald, bale, bead, bide, bile, blae, bled, blip, dale, deal, deil, deli, dial, diel, idea, idle, ilea, lade, laid, lead, leap, lied, lipa, lipe, padi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-i-l-p" | |
+1 letter: dippable, piebalds. | |
+2 letters: bipedally, parboiled. | |
+3 letters: bipedalism, bipedality, despicable, despicably, disposable, disputable, panbroiled, predicable. | |
+4 letters: bipedalisms, bipolarized, depreciable, dispensable, displayable, disposables, disprovable, predicables, predictable, predictably. | |
+5 letters: alphabetized, backpedaling, bipedalities, decipherable, displaceable, disreputable, disreputably, drapeability, imponderable, imponderably, indisputable, speedballing, subepidermal, undisputable. | |
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