brindled

"Apples, these I mean, unspeakably fair,--apples not of Discord, but Concord! Yet not so rare but that the homeliest may have a share. Painted by the frosts, some a uniform clear bright yellow, or red, or crimson, as if their spheres had regularly revolved, and enjoyed the influence of the sun on all sides alike,--some with the faintest pink blush imaginable,--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,--some touched with a greenish rust, like a fine lichen, here and there, with crimson blotches or eyes more or less confluent and fiery when wet,--and others gnarly, and freckled or peppered all over on the stem side with fine crimson spots on a white ground, as if accidentally sprinkled from the brush of Him who paints the autumn leaves." - 'Wild Apples', Henry David Thoreau.

I try to say Macbeth as often as possible.

synonym of brinded, like that loudmouth Scottish moggy at the beginning of Macbeth*.

* Or, if you think it's unlucky to invoke it by name on Wordie, "the Scottish play".

But it's time to go feed my own, non-brinded, moggies, Boris and Natasha. Later, wordiewonks!