brinded

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”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɪndɪd/

brinded (comparative more brinded, superlative most brinded)

1. (archaic, dialect) Especially of the fur or skin of animals: having a patchy or streaky pattern, usually brown or grey in colour; brindled.

   Synonyms: mottled, tabby

   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 143, column 2:

     Thrice the brinded Cat hath mew'd.

   • 1804, Alexander le. Goux de Flaix, “Memoir on the Wool and Sheep of Cachemire and Boutam”, in Philosophical Magazine‎, page 240:

     It is well known that the only wool susceptible of acquiring delicate and brilliant colours by the process of dyeing, is white wool: for this reason the Cachemirians separate all those lambs which are black or brinded.

   • 1877, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Pied Beauty”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, →OCLC, page 30, lines 1–3:

     Glory be to God for dappled things— / For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; / For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim: […]

2. (dialect) Frowning, looking sour or angry.
   • 1867, William Frederick Rock, Jim and Nell: A Dramatic Poem in the Dialect of North Devon. By a Devonshire Man‎:

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

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
• “brinded”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.