dapple

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 [ˈdæpəɫ]   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A mottled marking, usually in clusters.
  2. An animal with a mottled or spotted skin or coat.
    — “My brother,” said he, “do not ride to–day / The dapple, as you’re wont; but mount the horse / Which I have chosen for thee.
动词 v.
  1. To mark or become marked with mottling or spots.
    — Jt ſeemes it is in faſhion vvith you to ſugar your papers vvith Carnation phraſes, and dapple your ſpeeches vvith nevv quodled vvords.
形容词 adj.
  1. Having a mottled or spotted skin or coat, dappled.
    — Some dapple mists still floated along the peaks.

词形变化

dapples plural more dapple comparative most dapple superlative dapples present,singular,third-person dappling participle,present dappled participle,past dappled past

词源

词源 1
Uncertain. The adjective is first attested circa 1550 though the first element is already attested in dapple-grey as early as 1386, in Middle English, and later as dappled circa 1400; the OED suggests either:
* a back-formation from dapple-grey, itself a variant of apple-grey, compare possible cognates all said of horses: Old Norse apalgrár (whence Norwegian abildgrå and Swedish apel-grå), German apfelgrau. Compare also French pommelé (“dappled”), from pomme (“an apple”); or,
* a relation with Icelandic depill (“a dot, spot”).
The noun and verb are both later attested likely as back-formations.
词源 2
Uncertain. The adjective is first attested circa 1550 though the first element is already attested in dapple-grey as early as 1386, in Middle English, and later as dappled circa 1400; the OED suggests either:
* a back-formation from dapple-grey, itself a variant of apple-grey, compare possible cognates all said of horses: Old Norse apalgrár (whence Norwegian abildgrå and Swedish apel-grå), German apfelgrau. Compare also French pommelé (“dappled”), from pomme (“an apple”); or,
* a relation with Icelandic depill (“a dot, spot”).
The noun and verb are both later attested likely as back-formations.
词源 3
Uncertain. The adjective is first attested circa 1550 though the first element is already attested in dapple-grey as early as 1386, in Middle English, and later as dappled circa 1400; the OED suggests either:
* a back-formation from dapple-grey, itself a variant of apple-grey, compare possible cognates all said of horses: Old Norse apalgrár (whence Norwegian abildgrå and Swedish apel-grå), German apfelgrau. Compare also French pommelé (“dappled”), from pomme (“an apple”); or,
* a relation with Icelandic depill (“a dot, spot”).
The noun and verb are both later attested likely as back-formations.
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