This week’s theme
Back-formations

This week’s words
resurrect
penetralium
brindle

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PRONUNCIATION:

(BRIN-duhl)

MEANING:

noun:	1. Gray or tawny with streaks or spots of a darker color.
	2. An animal, especially a dog, cat, or cow, with a brindle coat.
adj.:	Of the color brindle.

ETYMOLOGY:

Back-formation from brindled, an alteration of brinded (streaked or spotted), from Old Norse. Earliest documented use: 1676.

USAGE:

“I’m not a huge fan of brindle, but Felix’s coat has a lot of gold mixed in with the darker shades of black and tan. On him, brindle looks good.”
Kassandra Lamb; The Call of the Woof; Misterio Press; 2017.

See more usage examples of brindle in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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