English
Pronunciation
Adjective
dappled (comparative more dappled, superlative most dappled)
- Having a mottled or spotted skin or coat, dapple.
1847, Emily Brontë, chapter XXVI, in Wuthering Heights[1]: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
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)
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Verb
dappled
- simple past and past participle of dapple