Brindedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɪndɪd/

形容詞

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, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [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^[1], 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 5093462, lines 1–3, page 30:

     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^[2]:

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