English
Etymology
1670-80 mottle + -ed.
Pronunciation
- (US) enPR: mǒt' ld, IPA(key): /ˈmɑt əld/
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Adjective
mottled (comparative more mottled, superlative most mottled)
- Colored in patches; spotted.
The mottled skin of the snake was a camouflage that helped it blend in with the shadows.
Derived terms
Translations
spotted
- Armenian: պիսակավոր (hy) (pisakavor), խայտուցավոր (hy) (xaytucʻavor)
- Old Armenian: պիսակ (pisak)
- Catalan: clapat (ca), clapejat
- Czech: strakatý (cs)
- Dutch: gevlekt (nl)
- Finnish: täplikäs (fi), läiskikäs
- French: tacheté (fr), marbré (fr)
- Galician: pinto (gl)
- German: gesprenkelt (de), gefleckt (de), meliert (de), marmoriert (de), fleckig (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: βαλιός (baliós), ποικίλος (poikílos)
- Hungarian: pettyezett (hu), pöttyözött, pettyes (hu)
- Irish: ballach
- Maori: tarare, tāingoingo, kōrangorango, tawatawa
- Mokilese: mwahmwain
- Plautdietsch: schakjich
- Portuguese: malhado (pt), manchado (pt)
- Russian: пятни́стый (ru) (pjatnístyj), кра́пчатый (ru) (krápčatyj), пёстрый (ru) (pjóstryj)
- Slovak: fľakatý, strakatý
- Spanish: moteado (es), manchado (es), jaspeado (es)
- Swedish: fläckig (sv)
- Tagalog: batik-batik
- Turkish: benekli (tr)
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Verb
mottled
- simple past and past participle of mottle