different between kaleidoscopic vs brindled

English

Alternative forms

• caleidoscopic

Etymology

From kaleidoscope +? -ic.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??la?d??sk?p?k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /k??la?d??sk??p?k/

Adjective

kaleidoscopic (comparative more kaleidoscopic, superlative most kaleidoscopic)

1. Of, relating to, or produced by a kaleidoscope.
2. (figuratively) Brightly coloured and continuously changing in pattern, as if in a kaleidoscope.
   • December 8 2020, David Barnett, "How John Lennon was made into a myth[1]" in BBC Online

     Like scholars picking over the childhood of Buddha, we want to understand how Lennon became the man he did, but there’s also a purity to this portrayal because it presents Lennon before the prism of fame split him into his kaleidoscopic multitude of facets that allowed artists to imprint their own ideas of what John Lennon was or should have been.

Translations

English

Etymology

An alteration of brinded, probably by association with speckled, grizzled etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??nd?ld/

Adjective

brindled (comparative more brindled, superlative most brindled)

1. of a brownish, tawny or gray colour, with streaks or spots; streaky, spotted
   • 1725, Pope, Odyssey (translation), book 10

     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.

   • 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.

Translations

Verb

brindled

1. simple past tense and past participle of brindle