α. Middle English–1700s pyed, 1500s–1600s pide, 1500s–1600s pyde, 1500s– pied, 1600s py'd, 1600s py'de.
β. U.S. regional (chiefly southern and south Midland) 1700s– pided, 1800s piedied, 1900s– pieded, 1900s– pieted.
piedadj.1n.
/pʌɪd/, U.S. /paɪd/ A. adj.1
1.
a. Originally of a friar's habit: black and white. Now chiefly of a mammal: = piebald adj. 2.
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > [adjective]
fawa700
medleyc1350
freckledc1380
motleyc1380
pied1382
specked1382
vary1382
partyc1385
parted1393
peckleda1400
polymitec1425
sere-colouredc1425
vairc1425
discoloured?1440
motleyed1447
varying1488
sheld1507
fleckered1508
piet1508
mellay1515
particoloured1530
pickled1552
varied1578
mingled1580
partly coloured1582
chequered1592
medley-coloured1593
mingle-coloured1593
piebald1594
feathered1610
changeable1612
particolour1612
enamelled1613
variousa1618
pie-coloured1619
jaspered1620
gangean1623
versicolour1628
patchwork1634
damasked1648
variously-coloureda1660
variegateda1661
agated1665
varicoloured1665
damaska1674
various-coloureda1711
pieted1721
versicoloured1721
diversicoloured1756
mosaic1776
harlequin1779
spanged1788
calico1807
piety1811
varied-coloured1811
discolorate1826
heterochromous1842
jaspé1851
discolor1859
discolorous1860
jasperoid1876
damascened1879
heterochromatic1895
variotinted1903
batik1914
varihued1921
rumbled1930
damasky1931
pepper-and-salt1940
partihued1959
the world > matter > colour > variegation > [adjective] > variegated with specific colours
hasweda1325
pied1382
black and white1395
blue and white1551
bauson1587
piebald1743
tortoiseshell1803
testudinarious1826
pepper-and-salta1843
tortoise1902
salt-and-pepper1915
pepper-and-salty1952
1382 Heu Quanta in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1859) I. 262 (MED) With an O and an I, fuerunt pyed freres.
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xxix. 134 With a hood, a bell,..and a bagge; In a pyed cote he rode brygge a bragge.
1574 tr. T. de Bèze et al. in Brieff Disc. Troubles Franckford p. cciii To weare the pied coate off a foole.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. iii. 78 That all the eanelings which were streakt and pied Should fall as Iacobs hier. View more context for this quotation
1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 16 Zebræ or Pide-horses.
1709 J. Lawson New Voy. Carolina 147 Old Wives are a black and white pied Gull with extraordinary long Wings.
1777 Philos. Trans. 1776 (Royal Soc.) 66 493 The bullock is pyed, white and red.
1831 W. Youatt Horse xxi. 376 The pied horse is one that has distinct spots or patches of different colours, but almost invariably of white with some other colour.
1887 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 27 Jan. 7/7 Pied or Mixed Corn. First premium, T. J. Tichenor.
1921 J. Galsworthy To Let 136 Pied cattle on the farther side stood in the shade lazily swishing their tails.
1994 Dog World Jan. 52/2 Patched or pied coloration usually black or gray on white.
b. Marked, dappled, speckled with (a colour or, in extended use, some other thing).
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a1618 J. Sylvester tr. Bethulians Rescue in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 974 In May, the Meads are not so py'd with Flowers..As was this Hoast, with Squadrons, different.
1645 J. Milton L'Allegro in Poems 33 Meadows trim with Daisies pide, Shallow Brooks, and Rivers wide.
1714 J. Lawson Hist. Carolina 143 The third is the same Bigness as the last; he is pied with black and white.
1777 Hist. Miss Maria Barlowe II. 98 You will see the meadows pied with daisies.
1853 G. Johnston Terra Lindisfarnensis I. 122 A garment pied with daisies, and buttercups, and dandelions.
1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid v, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 247 A Thracian courser with white all dappled and pied.
1932 E. Bowen To North xix. 202 These meadows..are pied with strange birds that flash over the water.
1997 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 30 Oct. (Sport section) 18 Birds in transition are boldly pied with white and dark.
2. figurative. Variable, inconstant; flawed. Now rare.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [adjective] > miscellaneous or heterogeneous > incongruously mixed
medleya1400
intermellé1487
farraginary1538
hotchpotch1556
promiscuous1579
hotchpot1588
pied1594
motley1601
hodge-podge1602
promiscual1602
macaronic1611
farraginous1616
throughother1626
mishmash1652
promiscous1656
hotchpotchly1674
hodge-podging1772
hashy1781
mixty-maxty1786
motleyed1798
gallimaufrical1836
odd-and-end1836
chow-chow1844
speckled1845
ragbag1882
disherent1890
1594 G. Chapman Hymnus in Cynthiam 374 Bewtie strikes fancie blind; pyed show deceau's vs.
c1635 H. Glapthorne Lady Mother (1959) i. 17 Noe specld Serpent weares more spotts then her pide honor.
1658 F. Osborne Advice to Son 166 This pied Goddess [sc. Fortune].
1841 R. W. Emerson Ess. 1st Ser. (Boston ed.) vi. 164 The vast shadow of the Phenomenal includes thee, also, in its pied and painted immensity.
1994 W. Gaddis Frolic of his Own 281 The pied jury as finders of fact decided parti pris for plaintiff little James B with a judgment for damages.
B. n.
A pied animal, esp. a pied bird.
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the world > animals > animal body > markings or colourings > [noun] > dapple > piebald
pied1701
piebald1722
1701 J. Brand Brief Descr. Orkney, Zetland 78 And the pyeds [sc. shelties] often prove not so good.
1906 Daily Chron. 10 Feb. 7/7 To the uninitiated the class of rare feathered specimens, such as the pieds and albinos, are always most interesting.
1946 Amer. Naturalist 80 573 (table) Information pieds mixed.
2003 Cage & Aviary Birds 6 Dec. 19/5 Interbreeding greywings with spangles, lacewings, fallows or recessive pieds may produce some good individuals.
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C1.
a.
pied friar n. [compare post-classical Latin frater de pica, frater picatus (c1250, a1270 respectively in British sources)] now historical (a) a member of a small order of friars originally based in Norwich; (b) a member of the Carmelite order of friars, whose habit is a brown tunic and a white cloak (see W. W. Skeat Student's Pastime §53).
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society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > other religions > Pied Friars (Norwich) > [noun]
pied friar1382
1382 [see sense A. 1a].
1641 W. Prynne Antipathie ii. iv. 222 His body was buried in an old Church yard of the Pied Fryers.
1768 Hist. City & County Norwich 428 The college..belonging to the Pied friers, so called from their outward garment, which was black and white, like a magpye.
1901 M. Hewlett New Canterbury Tales 137 The Pied Friars also mourned, since in their church was none to sing the solemn music proper to the feast.
1995 Speculum 70 648 The Pied Friars, Williamites, and Brothers of Penitence of Jesus Christ..were banned by the Council of Lyons in 1274.
pied monk n. now historical a member of either the Bernardine or the Cistercian order of monks, whose habit is a white tunic and a large black scapular.
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society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > Order of St. Benedict > [noun] > Cistercian
white monk?c1335
pied monk1530
white cloak1610
Bernardine1663
Cistercian1663
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 254/1 Pyed monke, barnardin.
c1600 Wriothesley's Chron. Eng. (1875) I. 63 An Abbott condam of Fountens, of the order of pyed monkes.
1758 tr. Voltaire Maid of Orleans II. xviii. 65 In his extetic vision the pied monk contemplated with an eager and respectful eye..the curious succession of European princes in flagrant.
1949 Speculum 24 235 The Friars of the Blessed Mary known as Blancs-manteaux and as Pied Friars, the Cistercians as White Monks and as Pied Monks.
b. In the names of birds and other animals characterized by variegated colouring.† pied blackbird n. Obsolete = pied ground thrush n.† pied hyena n. Obsolete rare the spotted hyena of sub-Saharan Africa, Crocuta crocuta, which has a coat with irregular dark spots and a loud laughing call.† pied seal n. Obsolete the Mediterranean monk seal, Monachus monachus.† pied wolf n. U.S. Obsolete a variety of the grey wolf, Canis lupus, with patches of black.
pied antelope n. now rare the bontebok, Damaliscus dorcas dorcas, an antelope with a mainly reddish-brown coat and white face, found in eastern South Africa.
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1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. at Pied Pied antelope.
1897 H. A. Bryden Nature & Sport 273 The bontebok.., or pied antelope..resembles very strongly its near relative, the curious blesbok.
1901 Times 19 Oct. 12/1 The bontebok, or pied antelope, of South Africa.
pied-bill adj. = pied-billed adj.; (also as n.) a pied-billed grebe.
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1731 M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina I. 91 The pied-bill dopchick. This Bird weighs half a pound.
1829 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom VIII. 549 Pied-bill Grebe.
1940 E. T. Seton Trail of Artist-naturalist 89 I traced them to the pied-bill grebe, or little helldiver.
1956 R. T. Peterson & J. Fisher Wild Amer. xxix. 320 Their census of nesting grebes on Tule Lake..showed 3500 pied-bills.
pied-billed adj. designating a New World grebe, Podilymbus podiceps, the breeding adult of which has a whitish bill with a black band around it.
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1771 G. Edwards M. Catesby's Nat. Hist. Carolina II. Index Dobchick, pied billed. [The text indexed has Pied-Bill Dobchick.]
1785 T. Pennant Arctic Zool. II. 517 (Index of Plates) Pied-billed Grebe, No 418.
1839 D. H. Storer & W. B. O. Peabody Rep. Fishes, Reptiles & Birds Mass. 377 The Pied-billed Grebe, or Dobchick, Podiceps Carolinensis, comes to us from the north early in autumn.
1992 New Brunswick Outdoor Adventure Guide 27/1 The 20,000 acre Trantramar marsh supports the world's densest concentration of nesting pied-billed grebes and marsh hawks.
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1734 E. Albin Nat. Hist. Birds II. 34 The Pied Blackbird... Its Bill was of lovely yellow, as in others of the male Kind of this Species, [etc.].
?a1808 Universal Syst. Nat. Hist. VII. 59 The pied blackbird, variegated with white and black.
pied brant n. (also †pied brant-goose) now North American the white-fronted goose Anser albifrons; also called speckled brant.
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1694 Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. 119 Here are Ducks, white and pied brant-Geese, grey Gulls, Sea-Mews, Sea-Divers and Penguins on the Water.
1849 J. L. Motley Merry-mount I. i. 2 Pied brant-geese, blue and green winged teal, two or three long-necked, long-billed cranes.
1888 G. Trumbull Names & Portraits Birds 11 Pied Brant, known in various parts of the West as Prairie Brant, Speckled Belly, and Speckled Brant.
1982 R. Elman Hunter's Field Guide 295 White-fronted Goose... Common & Regional Names... speckled brant, pied brant, [etc.].
pied duck n. = Labrador duck n. at Labrador n. 3b.
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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > genus Somateria > somateria labradoria (pied duck (extinct))
pied duck1637
pie-duck1813
skunkhead1843
1637 T. Morton New Eng. Canaan ii. iv. 68 Ducks, there are of three kindes, pide Ducks, gray Ducks, and black Ducks in greate abundance.
1785 T. Pennant Arctic Zool. II. ii. 559 (heading) Pied and buffel duck.
1899 Cambr. Nat. Hist. IX. 119 The extinct ‘Pied Duck’..was black, with white head, neck, chest [etc.].
1990 CD-ROM Librarian (Nexis) Nov. 32 The others, the Carolina parrot, passenger pigeon, pied duck, and great auk, have color plates but no call.
pied finch n. (a) British regional the chaffinch, Fringilla coelebs (now rare); cf. piefinch n.; †(b) the snow bunting, Plectrophenax nivalis (obsolete rare).Sense (b) is apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1763 R. Brookes New Syst. Nat. Hist. VI. 264 It [sc. the chaffinch] generally lays five or six eggs, and in some parts of England it is called the pied finch.
1877 E. Leigh Gloss. Words Dial. Cheshire 154 Pied Finch, a chaffinch.
1889 Cent. Dict. at Finch Pied finch, (a) The chaffinch... (b) The snow-bunting, Plectrophanes nivalis.
pied flycatcher n. a migratory black and white flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca, breeding from Europe and south-west Asia to North Africa.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > [noun] > subfamily Muscicapinae > ficedula hypoleuca (pied flycatcher)
cold-finch1743
pied flycatcher1768
1768 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) II. 273 Pied Fly-catcher. [Synonyms]..Cold finch Will. Edw. Cold-finch Br. Zool.
1843 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Birds I. 169 The Pied Flycatcher..is a rare bird in England.
1991 Bird Watching June 52/1 Pied flycatchers..are less conspicuous than the spotted flycatcher.
pied goose n. Australian = magpie goose n. at magpie n. and adj. Compounds 2.
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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > [noun] > member of subfamily Anserinea (goose) > anseranas selmipalmata (magpie goose)
pied goose1860
magpie goose1861
1860 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 30 Nov. 25/2 Pied Goose.
1884 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Old Melbourne Memories 22 The pied goose, here in large flocks, with..an occasional wild turkey, were our chief support and sustenance.
1979 D. Lockwood My Old Mates & I 11 Here were pied geese in thousands, the magpie-honkers that fly by night.
pied ground thrush n. a ground thrush of India and Sri Lanka, Zoothera wardii, the male of which has black and white plumage and a yellow bill.
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1889 Cent. Dict. at Ground-thrush G[eocichla] wardi is the pied ground-thrush of India.
1973 S. Ali & S. D. Ripley Handbk. Birds India & Pakistan IX. 83 Pied ground thrush... Male. An unmistakable black-and-white thrush with a yellow bill.
2000 M. Ondaatje Anil's Ghost 39 The pied ground thrush with its fading hoot.
pied hornbill n. either of two black and white Asiatic hornbills of the genus Anthracoceros, A. coronatus and A. malabricus.
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1792 Buffon's Nat. Hist. Abridged (London ed.) II. 75 In pl. LX. we have given a representation of the Pied hornbill, or calao of Malabar.
1964 C. Willock Enormous Zoo vii. 120 Pied hornbills croak and soar on stiff, broad wingbeats across the water.
2000 Windsor (Canada) Star (Nexis) 25 Nov. c8 Pulau Tiga offers a chance to sight magnificent black and white pied hornbills.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Carnivora > [noun] > family Hyaenidae (hyena) > genus Crocuta (spotted hyaena)
tiger-wolf1731
wolf1815
pied hyena1865
1865 W. Boyd Swartzen 72 Robes of striped or pied hyena.
pied kingfisher n. either of two black and white kingfishers, Ceryle rudis of Asia and Africa, and Megaceryle lugubris of Asia.
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Coraciiformes (kingfisher, etc.) > [noun] > family Alcedinidae > member of genus Ceryle
kingfisher1440
pied kingfisher?1606
belted kingfisher1782
?1606 M. Drayton Man in Moone in Poemes sig. H3v Long leau'd willow on whose bending spray, The pide kings-fisher..sat.
1793 J. Leslie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Birds VII. 201 The whole plumage of this bird consists of black and white, broken and intermixed; and we have therefore termed it the Pied King-fisher.
1862 J. Richardson et al. Museum Nat. Hist. 297/2 The Pied Kingfisher (Ceryle rudis) belongs to a genus also closely allied to Alcedo.
1865 Ibis 1 408 Pied Kingfisher. Appears to be the common species of Lower Bengal.
1993 New Scientist 6 Feb. 41/2 The pied kingfisher's unique ability to hover-hunt far offshore.
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1799 Naturalist's Pocket Mag. 2 at Pied seal The Pied Seal,..which differs little else than in colour from the common species, was first figured and described by Pennant.
?a1808 Universal Syst. Nat. Hist. III. 564 The Pied Seal. In this species the nose is taper and elongated; the fore feet furnished with five toes, [etc.].
pied sheldrake n. U.S. regional (north-eastern) the red-breasted merganser, Mergus serrator.
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1792 J. Belknap Hist. New-Hampsh. III. 168 Pyed Sheldrake, Mergus castor?
1856 W. Whitman Leaves of Grass 185 Through him flights, songs, screams, answering those of wild-pigeon, high-hold, orchard-oriole,..pied-sheldrake, [etc.].
1982 R. Elman Hunter's Field Guide 230 Red-breasted Merganser... Common & Regional Names..Long Island sheldrake, pied sheldrake.
pied starling n. (a) the Bourbon crested starling, Fregilupus varius, an extinct starling of the Indian Ocean island of Réunion (now rare); (b) a dark brown starling of roadsides and grasslands in southern Africa, Spreo bicolor, distinguished by conspicuous white undertail coverts.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > [noun] > family Sturnidae > genus Spreo
pied starling1792
sprew1795
1792 New Syst. Nat. Hist. II. 334 The pied Starling of the Cape of Good Hope.
1901 Nature 10 Jan. 254/2 A notable loss is the handsome crested pied starling..which is believed to have become extinct about the middle of the [19th] century.
1923 A. K. Haagner & R. H. Ivy Sketches S. Afr. Bird-life (rev. ed.) 82 First in order of classification comes the Spreeuw, or Pied Starling (Spreo bicolor), which is very common throughout South Africa.
1971 Eng. Usage Southern Afr. 2 ii. 10 Pied starling..alt: witgatspreeu.
pied wagtail n. any of several black and white wagtails of the genus Motacilla; spec. a white wagtail of the subspecies M. alba yarrelli, found in the British Isles, Spain, and Morocco.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Motacillidae > genus Motacilla > motacilla alba (pied wagtail)
washerc1325
washstarta1400
wevesterte14..
water swallow1544
dishwasher1575
water-wagtail1593
dishwater1674
seed bird1675
pied wagtail1744
willy wagtail1780
washerwoman1817
wash-dish1825
moll-washer1847
deviling1853
devil's bird1853
tinner1866
peggy1885
1744 Ornithologia Nova II. 267 The Pied Wagtail [of the West Indies], is about the size of the yellow one, the Bill pretty taper'd, and sharp at the point.
1797 R. Beilby & T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds I. 188 The Pied Wagtail... The length of this bird is about seven inches.
1894 C. Dixon Nests & Eggs Brit. Birds 64 The White Wagtail does not differ in its habits..from the Pied Wagtail.
1992 Bird Watching Jan. 18/1 The box will become suitable for Robins, Spotted Flycatchers and Pied Wagtails.
pied wigeon n. rare (a) British regional the garganey, Anas querquedula; (b) British regional the goldeneye, Bucephala clangula; (c) British regional the goosander, Mergus merganser; (d) U.S. the pintail, Anas acuta.
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1885 C. Swainson Provincial Names Brit. Birds 158 Garganey... Pied wiggon or wigeon.
1885 C. Swainson Provincial Names Brit. Birds 160 Golden-eye... The dark back and white underparts have caused it to be named Pied wigeon.
1885 C. Swainson Provincial Names Brit. Birds 163 Goosander... Pied wigeon (Salop).
1917 T. G. Pearson Birds Amer. I. 128/1 Pintail... Other Names... Female: Gray Duck; Pied Gray Duck; Pied Widgeon.
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1842 Z. Thompson Hist. Vermont 34/1 Difference of colour has been the occasion of the division of this species into the following varieties:..Lupus sticte, Pied Wolf.
1869 Demorest's Young Amer. Feb. 141/2 Pied Wolf. These wolves are called by this name, when black colors instead of gray are seen in large patches on the sides.
C2. In attributive and parasynthetic compounds.† pied-coat adj. Obsolete† pied-coated adj. Obsolete† pied-faced adj. Obsolete
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1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) ix. f.121v The barking bug Anubis, and the saint of Bubast, and The pydecote Apis.
1630 J. Taylor Wks. i. 117/1 The pide-coat Mackrell, Pilchard, Sprat, and Soale.
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1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ vi. xlvii. 71 The said Town of Hamelen was annoyed with Rats and Mice; and it chanc'd, that a Pied-coated Piper came thither.
c1775 Hist. Witches, Ghosts, & Highland Seers 215 This city was annoyed with rats and mice, it happened that a pied-coated piper came thither.
1803 H. Downman Infancy (ed. 6) 220 Not only the poor hind who guides the plough, But the pied-coated beggar.
pied-coloured adj.
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1605 Hist. Tryall Cheualry sig. C3 Leere not, Lobster, lest I thum that russeting face of yours with my sword hilt, till that it looke as pyde colourd as the Rainbow.
1709 J. Strype Ann. Reformation xxiii. 236 Eighteen great horses, all of them pyed coloured.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 509/1 When an albino mouse..is crossed with either a pure self or pure pied-coloured form.
1998 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant (Nexis) 11 Jan. 9 The sweat moved onto her neck, then under the pied-colored dress she wore so often.
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1595 G. Chapman Coronet vi The Protean rages Of pied-faced fashion.
1739 Z. Grey Scismatics delineated from Authenic Vouchers ii. 51 The Pied-faced Fool, Dr. Bridges, imitating him.
1891 Littell's Living Age 3 Oct. 2/1 The little pied-faced pansy 'mid the rye.
pied-winged adj.
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1634 Noble Souldier ii. sig. Cv These pide-wing'd Butterflyes.
1908 M. J. Cawein Poems V. 151 Where butterflies, pied-wing'd, did rock, Or, seal-brown, sucked and slept.
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piedadj.2
/pʌɪd/, U.S. /paɪd/ Made into printers' pie; (figurative) jumbled, confused.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [adjective]
confusec1384
yblent1426
intermellé1487
farraginary1538
puddled1559
confused1576
promiscuous1579
pell-mell1584
ravelleda1586
mingle-mangle1589
rumblingc1598
skimble-skamble1598
huddle1601
plundered1601
promiscual1602
jumbled1611
promiscous1656
bedevilled1755
helter-skelter1785
muddly1829
hugger-mugger1840
wildered1853
pied1870
deurmekaar1871
mixed-up1888
screwed-up1942
snafu1942
scrambled1951
untogether1969
society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > [adjective] > converted to printer's pie, mixed up
pied1870
1870 Daily News 2 Oct. Since then matters stand as above described, in a curiously pied condition.
1892 Amer. Missionary Apr. 133 Resetting pied type produces profound meditation on the natural laws of order and fitness of things.
1956 J. Whatmough Lang. i. 9 A haphazard jumble of symbols, say a pied text, is a..nightmare.
1989 Word 40 370 On the pages of this book English appears as a gloriously pied language.
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