dappled

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): [ˈdæpəɫd]

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Adjective

dappled (comparative more dappled, superlative most dappled)

1. Having a mottled or spotted skin or coat, dapple.
   • 1847, Emily Brontë, chapter XXVI, in Wuthering Heights‎:

     It was a close, sultry day: devoid of sunshine, but with a sky too dappled and hazy to threaten rain

   • 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: […]

Derived terms

• dappledness
• sweat-dappled
• undappled

Translations

having a mottled or spotted skin or coat

Arabic: أَبْرَش (ar) (ʔabraš) Egyptian Arabic: ابرش (abraš) Bulgarian: пъстър (bg) (pǎstǎr), петнист (petnist) Chinese: Mandarin: 斑紋的 / 斑纹的 Dutch: gespikkeld (nl) Finnish: laikukas (fi) Galician: pinto (gl), pego (gl), pintado (gl) German: scheckig, sprenglig, sprenglich, gesprenkelt (de), getupft (de) Greek: Ancient: βαλιός (baliós), ποικίλος (poikílos) Hungarian: pöttyös (hu), pettyes (hu), foltos (hu) Irish: ballach Italian: pezzato (it) Latin: maculosus Maori: kōpukupuku Mongolian: толбо (mn) (tolbo) Ottoman Turkish: چوپورلو (çopurlu) Polish: cętkowany (pl), nakrapiany (pl) Russian: пятни́стый (ru) (pjatnístyj), в я́блоках (ru) (v jáblokax) usually of a horse, чуба́рый (ru) (čubáryj), кра́пчатый (ru) (krápčatyj) Spanish: moteado (es) Swedish: fläckig (sv), spräcklig Ukrainian: плямистий (pljamystyj), цяткований (uk) (cjatkovanyj), в яблука (v jabluka)

Verb

dappled

1. simple past and past participle of dapple