piebald
Plural: piebalds
Adjective Satellite
- having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly
- "a piebald horse"
Adj
- Spotted or blotched, especially in black and white.
- Of mixed character, heterogeneous.
Noun
- An animal, often a horse, with patches of two colors.
- An animal with piebald coloration.
Examples
- The board, with its mix of blank and letter tiles, looked somewhat PIEBALD.
Origin / Etymology
From pie (“magpie”) + bald (“having white patches or blazes”).
Synonyms
calico, motley, multi-color, multi-colored, multi-colour, multi-coloured, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, pied, varicolored, varicoloured
Scrabble Score: 12
piebald: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordpiebald: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
piebald: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary