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Brindled vs Speckled - What's the difference?

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Brindled is a related term of speckled.


As adjectives the difference between brindled and speckled

is that brindled is of a brownish, tawny or gray colour, with streaks or spots; streaky, spotted while speckled is with dots or spots, spotted.

brindled

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • of a brownish, tawny or gray colour, with streaks or spots; streaky, spotted
  • * 1725 , Pope, Odyssey (translation),
  • The palace in a woody vale they found,
    High raised of stone; a shaded space around;
    Where mountain wolves and brindled lions roam,
    (By magic tamed,) familiar to the dome.
  • * 1853 , Melville,
  • All round me were tokens of a divided empire. The old grass and the new grass were striving together. In the low wet swales the verdure peeped out in vivid green ; beyond, on the mountains, lay light patches of snow, strangely relieved against their russet sides; all the humped hills looked like brindled kine in the shivers.
  • * 1862 , Thoreau,
  • Apples, these I mean, unspeakably fair [...] - some brindled with deep red streaks like a cow, or with hundreds of fine blood-red rays running regularly from the stem-dimple to the blossom-end, like meridional lines, on a straw-colored ground, [...]
  • * 1904 , Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of Black Peter’ (Norton 2005, p.982)
  • And there, in the middle of it was the man himself—his face twisted like a lost soul in torment, and his great brindled beard stuck upwards in his agony.

    speckled

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • with dots or spots, spotted
  • The bird's eggs were speckled as camouflage.
  • Sporadically and irregularly marked.
  • Synonyms

    * speckly