pied

pied¹ (p

adj.

Patchy in color; splotched or piebald.

[Middle English, from pie, magpie; see pie².]

pied² (p

v. Printing

Past tense and past participle of pi².

pied [paɪd]

adj

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) having markings of two or more colours

[from pie²; an allusion to the magpie's black-and-white colouring]

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Adj.

pied - having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; "a jester dressed in motley"; "the painted desert"; "a particolored dress"; "a piebald horse"; "pied daisies"

multi-color, multi-colored, multi-colour, multi-coloured, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, particolored, particoloured, piebald, varicolored, varicoloured, calico, motley, painted

colored, coloured, colorful - having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination; "colored crepe paper"; "the film was in color"; "amber-colored heads of grain"

pied

adjective variegated, spotted, streaked, irregular, flecked, motley, mottled, dappled, multicoloured, piebald, parti-coloured, varicoloured a bird with pied markings

Translations

pied [paɪd] ADJ [horse] → pío, picazo; [bird] → pinto
the Pied Piper of Hamelin → el flautista de Hamelin

pied

adj → gescheckt, gefleckt; the Pied Piper of Hamelin → der Rattenfänger von Hameln

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Dicrostonyx
Dicrostonyx hudsonius
foot
footbrake
footing
genus Dicrostonyx
Hudson bay collared lemming
instep
kick
levelling
multi-color
multi-colored
multicoloured
piebald
Pied antelope
Pied blackbird
pied dishwasher
Pied finch
Pied flycatcher

Now, young man, what manner of a bird would you suppose a pied merlin to be--that being the proper sign of my hostel?

The White Company by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context

The bird-trap was quite empty, as he had caught nothing, and he had to kill a pied Partridge, which he had tamed for a decoy.

Fables by Aesop View in context

Then there is the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, how first he piped the rats away, and afterward, when the mayor broke faith with him, drew all the children along with him and went into the mountain.

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context

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