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Appaloosa vs Pinto - What's the difference?

appaloosa | pinto |

As nouns the difference between appaloosa and pinto

is that appaloosa is a breed of horse having a spotted rump while pinto is a horse with a patchy coloration that includes white.

As an adjective pinto is

pied, mottled.

appaloosa

English

Etymology 1

From the phrase "a Palouse horse", referring to the Palouse River near which they were first encountered by non-Native Americans.2002 , Dave Conklin, Montana History Weekends: 52 Adventures in History , page 63: "White settlers first described the colorful native mounts as "a Palouse horse," which was soon slurred to "Appalousey." The river is named for the or the people's name derives from a (etyl) designation of the region as pelouse is unclear.

Alternative forms

* Appaloosa

Noun

(en noun)
  • (US) A breed of horse having a spotted rump.
  • Etymology 2

    Shortening of "Appaloosa cat" (itself a shortening of "Apaloosa catfish"), after the Appaloosa (Opelousa) tribe which resided in Louisiana. The tribe's name is (etyl), the second element of it being

    Alternative forms

    * Appaloosa

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Southern US) A catfish.
  • * 2005 , David Francis, The Great Inland Sea , page 141:
  • A big fish wends its way towards the shape the light makes, stops and sucks at air. Mottled brown and black, with a pink, appaloosa mouth.
  • * 2008 , Harry Noble, Me and Burnice: A Simpler Time , page 167:
  • On a two-day camp out at Red Bluff on the Angelina River in East Texas, we had out twelve trotlines, fishing for mud, appaloosa , blue and channel catfish.

    References

    pinto

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (zoology) A horse with a patchy coloration that includes white.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pied, mottled.
  • :* 1963', While Profane, dreamy, went on to tell of his nights with the Alligator Patrol, and how he’d hunted one '''pinto beast through Fairing’s Parish; cornered and killed it in a chamber lit by some frightening radiance. — Thomas Pynchon, ''V.
  • Derived terms

    * pinto bean

    See also

    * American Paint Horse

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