dappled

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, General American) IPA^(key): [ˈdæpəɫd]

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Adjective

dappled (comparative more dappled, superlative most dappled)

1. Having a mottled or spotted skin or coat, dapple.
   • 1645, John Milton, L'Allegro‎^[1], archived from the original on 29 September 2026:

     To hear the lark begin his flight,
     And singing startle the dull night,
     From his watch-tower in the skies,
     Till the dappled dawn doth rise [...]

   • 1847, Emily Brontë, chapter XXVI, in Wuthering Heights‎^[2]:

     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

• dappled light
• dappledness
• sun-dappled
• sweat-dappled
• undappled

Translations

having a mottled or spotted skin or coat

• Arabic: أَبْرَش (ar) (ʔabraš)

  Egyptian Arabic: ابرش (abraš)

• Bulgarian: пъстър (bg) (păstăr), 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 Greek: βαλιός (baliós), ποικίλος (poikílos)

• Hungarian: pöttyös (hu), pettyes (hu), foltos (hu)
• Irish: ballach
• Italian: pezzato (it)
• Latin: maculosus
• Māori: kōpukupuku
• Mongolian: толбо (mn) (tolbo)
• 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
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: چوپورلو (çopurlu)

• Ukrainian: плямистий (pljamystyj), цяткований (uk) (cjatkovanyj), в яблука (v jabluka)

Verb

dappled

1. simple past and past participle of dapple