dappled

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): [ˈdæpəɫd]

Adjective

dappled (comparative more dappled, superlative most dappled)

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

     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 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: […]

Derived terms

• sweat-dappled

Translations

having a mottled or spotted skin or coat

• Arabic:

  Egyptian Arabic: ابرش‎ (abraš)

• Bulgarian: пъстър (bg) (pǎstǎr), петнист (petnist)
• Dutch: gespikkeld (nl)
• Greek:

  Ancient: βαλιός (baliós), ποικίλος (poikílos)

• Hungarian: pöttyös (hu), pettyes (hu), foltos (hu)
• Irish: ballach
• Italian: pezzato (it)

• 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
• Westrobothnian: dilu

Verb

dappled

1. simple past tense and past participle of dapple