pinton.adj.

Brit.

/ˈpɪntəʊ/, U.S.

/ˈpɪn(t)oʊ/

Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish pinto.

Etymology: < Spanish pinto painted, mottled (a1250 or earlier; now archaic and regional; a1874 as noun in the sense ‘a member of an American Indian people’) < an unattested post-classical Latin *pinctus , variant of classical Latin pictus painted (see pictogram n.). With sense A. 1, perhaps also compare American Spanish pinto suffering from pinta (compare quot. 1859 at sense A. 1; compare pinta n.¹).With sense A. 3 compare earlier pinto bean n. at Compounds 2.

Chiefly North American.

A. n.

1. A member of any peoples inhabiting southern Mexico, characterized as having mottled skin. Now historical.

ΚΠ

1846 Times 8 Jan. 5/2 In the latter [sc. the Sur of Mexico] Alvarez has, supported by a peculiar coloured race called Pintos, openly pronounced.

1859 A. K. Shepard Land of Aztecs viii. 151 The man was what is called a ‘Pinto’, that is, his copper-colored skin was marked with large spots of white... (There are whole villages of these Pintos in the south of Mexico; the spots are caused by disease, a species of leprosy.)

1865 S. S. Cox Eight Years in Congr. 122 Meanwhile young Alvarez and Villava lead their speckled Pintos down on the warm lowlands for pillage.

1909 Indiana (Pa.) Evening Gaz. 24 Apr. 3/3 A Pinto Indian of eastern Tabasco adopted a novel method of catching alligators.

1997 Canad. Jrnl. Hist. (Nexis) Dec. In fact, when Alvarez's much feared swarthy soldiers called the Pintos occupied Mexico City in November 1855, the anticipated violence and extremism did not occur.

2. A piebald or skewbald horse. Originally U.S.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > colour or marking > [noun] > piebald

piebald1722

piet1756

paint1845

pinto1860

1860 Marysville (Calif.) Appeal 9 Feb. 3/1 The struggle..ended in the success of the black horse, which came out some twenty-five feet in advance of the ‘Pinto’.

1890 Stock Grower & Farmer 26 July 6/3 We had an old pinto that was the worst bluffer that I ever saw.

1924 C. E. Mulford Rustlers' Valley 234 If I'd 'a' been on your cayuse, or th' pinto, I'd 'a' got him [sc. an outlaw].

1948 Sun (Baltimore) 18 June 15/4 The Appaloosa somewhat resembles the paints, pintos and calicos, so popular with the plains Indians.

1995 Canad. Horseman Mar. 23/2 Paint horses are technically pintos... Paints have their own breed registry and their own show circuit.

3. = pinto bean n. at Compounds 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > pulse > [noun] > bean > kidney beans

kidney bean1548

fasels1562

frijoles1568

Welsh bean1585

longbean1587

haricot1653

string-bean1759

snapc1770

butter bean1820

snap-bean1870

flageolet1877

sieva1888

pinto bean1913

pinto1918

borlotti1932

soldier bean1968

1918 in E. L. D. Seymour Farm Knowl. iv. xxvi. 271/2 The Pacific and Mountain States entered the field, Colorado planting 200,000 acres, largely Pintos.

1942 E. Paul Narrow Street vi. 51 The Épicerie Danton had limas, normal-sized and ‘baby’, Canterbury, scarlet runners, pintos, [etc.].

1992 Atlantic July 12/2 Pintos are the only beans I know that don't have to be tarted up with something like ham bones or herbs to make them edible.

B. adj.

Esp. of a horse: having a mottled coat; piebald, skewbald. Cf. paint horse at paint n. 7. Originally U.S.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > colour or marking > [adjective] > piebald

piebald1594

pinto1865

1865 Californian 15 Apr. 4/1 The devil in the shape of a fleet pinto colt.

1885 B. Harte Maruja iii. 60 It was you, Pereo, who took me before you on your pinto horse.

1936 D. McCowan Animals Canad. Rockies xvi. 141 An Indian boy on a pinto pony had chased him to cover.

1977 H. O'Hagan Woman who got on at Jasper Station & Other Stories 12 The woman's pinto horse was tethered downstream on a goose grass flat.

1995 Canad. Horseman Mar. 22/2 Pinto markings can now be found in almost all breeds.

Compounds

C1.

pinto-coloured adj.

ΚΠ

1949 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 7 July 10/4 The crossbred lambs are pinto colored with white or reddish brown.

1966 H. Marriott Cariboo Cowboy iii. 39 I had two saddle horses... One was a pinto-coloured gelding.

2002 Washington Post (Nexis) 12 Dec. t9 A Montgomery County police officer nabbed a pinto-colored Shetland pony that had escaped from its owner.

C2.

pinto bean n. [after American Spanish frijol pinto a mottled type of bean common especially in Northern Mexico and also in the United States.] the mottled seed of a variety of the kidney bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, which is widely cultivated in the south-western United States and Central America; (also) the plant itself.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > bean > kidney beans or kidney bean plants

French bean1542

kidney bean1548

fasels1562

frijoles1568

Welsh bean1585

longbean1587

cock stone1631

haricot1653

string-bean1759

snap-bean1770

bunch-bean1787

butter bean1820

bush-bean1821

snaps1845

navy bean1851

cannellini1862

flageolet1877

wax bean1905

pinto bean1913

wax-pod bean1921

borlotti1932

the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > pulse > [noun] > bean > kidney beans

kidney bean1548

fasels1562

frijoles1568

Welsh bean1585

longbean1587

haricot1653

string-bean1759

snapc1770

butter bean1820

snap-bean1870

flageolet1877

sieva1888

pinto bean1913

pinto1918

borlotti1932

soldier bean1968

1913 College Courier (State Coll. New Mexico) Dec. 2/4 The light Pinto bean of pale flesh color with brown flecks or bands seems to be the better conditioned of the two.

1924 W. M. Raine Troubled Waters xxvii. 269 Pinto beans..were no sooner out and stacked than the men were hard at it putting in winter wheat.

1992 D. Allison Bastard out of Carolina iv. 44 ‘They said it was a boy,’ he told Earle later over pinto beans and cornbread at Aunt Ruth's house.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pinto
释义	pinton.adj. Brit. /ˈpɪntəʊ/, U.S. /ˈpɪn(t)oʊ/ Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish pinto. Etymology: < Spanish pinto painted, mottled (a1250 or earlier; now archaic and regional; a1874 as noun in the sense ‘a member of an American Indian people’) < an unattested post-classical Latin pinctus , variant of classical Latin pictus* painted (see pictogram n.). With sense A. 1, perhaps also compare American Spanish pinto suffering from pinta (compare quot. 1859 at sense A. 1; compare pinta n.¹).With sense A. 3 compare earlier pinto bean n. at Compounds 2. Chiefly North American. A. n. 1. A member of any peoples inhabiting southern Mexico, characterized as having mottled skin. Now historical. ΚΠ 1846 Times 8 Jan. 5/2 In the latter [sc. the Sur of Mexico] Alvarez has, supported by a peculiar coloured race called Pintos, openly pronounced. 1859 A. K. Shepard Land of Aztecs viii. 151 The man was what is called a ‘Pinto’, that is, his copper-colored skin was marked with large spots of white... (There are whole villages of these Pintos in the south of Mexico; the spots are caused by disease, a species of leprosy.) 1865 S. S. Cox Eight Years in Congr. 122 Meanwhile young Alvarez and Villava lead their speckled Pintos down on the warm lowlands for pillage. 1909 Indiana (Pa.) Evening Gaz. 24 Apr. 3/3 A Pinto Indian of eastern Tabasco adopted a novel method of catching alligators. 1997 Canad. Jrnl. Hist. (Nexis) Dec. In fact, when Alvarez's much feared swarthy soldiers called the Pintos occupied Mexico City in November 1855, the anticipated violence and extremism did not occur. 2. A piebald or skewbald horse. Originally U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > colour or marking > [noun] > piebald piebald1722 piet1756 paint1845 pinto1860 1860 Marysville (Calif.) Appeal 9 Feb. 3/1 The struggle..ended in the success of the black horse, which came out some twenty-five feet in advance of the ‘Pinto’. 1890 Stock Grower & Farmer 26 July 6/3 We had an old pinto that was the worst bluffer that I ever saw. 1924 C. E. Mulford Rustlers' Valley 234 If I'd 'a' been on your cayuse, or th' pinto, I'd 'a' got him [sc. an outlaw]. 1948 Sun (Baltimore) 18 June 15/4 The Appaloosa somewhat resembles the paints, pintos and calicos, so popular with the plains Indians. 1995 Canad. Horseman Mar. 23/2 Paint horses are technically pintos... Paints have their own breed registry and their own show circuit. 3. = pinto bean n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > pulse > [noun] > bean > kidney beans kidney bean1548 fasels1562 frijoles1568 Welsh bean1585 longbean1587 haricot1653 string-bean1759 snapc1770 butter bean1820 snap-bean1870 flageolet1877 sieva1888 pinto bean1913 pinto1918 borlotti1932 soldier bean1968 1918 in E. L. D. Seymour Farm Knowl. iv. xxvi. 271/2 The Pacific and Mountain States entered the field, Colorado planting 200,000 acres, largely Pintos. 1942 E. Paul Narrow Street vi. 51 The Épicerie Danton had limas, normal-sized and ‘baby’, Canterbury, scarlet runners, pintos, [etc.]. 1992 Atlantic July 12/2 Pintos are the only beans I know that don't have to be tarted up with something like ham bones or herbs to make them edible. B. adj. Esp. of a horse: having a mottled coat; piebald, skewbald. Cf. paint horse at paint n. 7. Originally U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > colour or marking > [adjective] > piebald piebald1594 pinto1865 1865 Californian 15 Apr. 4/1 The devil in the shape of a fleet pinto colt. 1885 B. Harte Maruja iii. 60 It was you, Pereo, who took me before you on your pinto horse. 1936 D. McCowan Animals Canad. Rockies xvi. 141 An Indian boy on a pinto pony had chased him to cover. 1977 H. O'Hagan Woman who got on at Jasper Station & Other Stories 12 The woman's pinto horse was tethered downstream on a goose grass flat. 1995 Canad. Horseman Mar. 22/2 Pinto markings can now be found in almost all breeds. Compounds C1. pinto-coloured adj. ΚΠ 1949 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 7 July 10/4 The crossbred lambs are pinto colored with white or reddish brown. 1966 H. Marriott Cariboo Cowboy iii. 39 I had two saddle horses... One was a pinto-coloured gelding. 2002 Washington Post (Nexis) 12 Dec. t9 A Montgomery County police officer nabbed a pinto-colored Shetland pony that had escaped from its owner. C2. pinto bean n. [after American Spanish frijol pinto a mottled type of bean common especially in Northern Mexico and also in the United States.] the mottled seed of a variety of the kidney bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, which is widely cultivated in the south-western United States and Central America; (also) the plant itself. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > bean > kidney beans or kidney bean plants French bean1542 kidney bean1548 fasels1562 frijoles1568 Welsh bean1585 longbean1587 cock stone1631 haricot1653 string-bean1759 snap-bean1770 bunch-bean1787 butter bean1820 bush-bean1821 snaps1845 navy bean1851 cannellini1862 flageolet1877 wax bean1905 pinto bean1913 wax-pod bean1921 borlotti1932 the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > pulse > [noun] > bean > kidney beans kidney bean1548 fasels1562 frijoles1568 Welsh bean1585 longbean1587 haricot1653 string-bean1759 snapc1770 butter bean1820 snap-bean1870 flageolet1877 sieva1888 pinto bean1913 pinto1918 borlotti1932 soldier bean1968 1913 College Courier (State Coll. New Mexico) Dec. 2/4 The light Pinto bean of pale flesh color with brown flecks or bands seems to be the better conditioned of the two. 1924 W. M. Raine Troubled Waters xxvii. 269 Pinto beans..were no sooner out and stacked than the men were hard at it putting in winter wheat. 1992 D. Allison Bastard out of Carolina iv. 44 ‘They said it was a boy,’ he told Earle later over pinto beans and cornbread at Aunt Ruth's house. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1846
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