pinto

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UK/ˈpɪntəʊ/Canada, US/ˈpɪntoʊ/Australia/ˈpɪntəʉ/

noun

A horse with a patchy coloration that includes a white color.

OriginSpanish pinto →
Less commonScrabble 7
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Meanings

pinto1

nounpinto (plural pintos or pintoes)

plural pintos · plural pintoes

  1. horse colorA horse with a patchy coloration that includes a white color.

    Chick Norris leaned low over his pinto.

    1936 August, Joseph S. Fleming, “Flying Hoofs. Chick Norris again leads his Mounted Patrol”, in Boys' Life, page 10
adjectivepinto (comparative more pinto, superlative most pinto)

comparative more pinto · superlative most pinto

  1. Pied, mottled.

    While Profane, dreamy, went on to tell of his nights with the Alligator Patrol, and how he’d hunted one pinto beast through Fairing’s Parish; cornered and killed it in a chamber lit by some frightening radiance.

    1963, Thomas Pynchon, V.

Pinto2

nounPinto (plural Pintos or Pintoes)

plural Pintos · plural Pintoes

  1. A member of a mountain tribe of Native Americans living near Acapulco, Mexico.
proper noun
  1. A municipality in Santiago del Ester, Argentina
  2. A town in Ñuble Province, Biobío Region, Chile.
  3. A town in the autonomous community of Madrid, Spain

Origin

pinto · noun, adjective

  1. Spanishpinto“painted, mottled”
  2. Englishpinto

Borrowed from Spanish pinto (“painted, mottled”).

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Pinto · noun, proper noun

  1. Spanishpinto“painted, mottled”
  2. EnglishPinto

From Spanish pinto (“painted, mottled”), from the white speckled pattern they used to apply to their faces.

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Translations

Bulgarian шарен, петнист
  • шарен (šaren)pied, mottled
  • петнист (petnist)pied, mottled
Czech grošák, grošovaný kůň
  • grošákhorse with patchy coloration including white
  • grošovaný kůňhorse with patchy coloration including white
German Scheck, Schecke
  • Scheckhorse with patchy coloration including white
  • Scheckehorse with patchy coloration including white
  • Scheckehorse with patchy coloration including white
  • geflecktpied, mottled
Irish capall alabhreac, capall breac
  • capall alabhreachorse with patchy coloration including white
  • capall breachorse with patchy coloration including white
Norwegian Bokmål flekket
  • flekketpied, mottled
Polish koń łaciaty, łaciaty
  • koń łaciatyhorse with patchy coloration including white
  • łaciatypied, mottled
Portuguese cavalo malhado, malhado
  • cavalo malhadohorse with patchy coloration including white
  • malhadopied, mottled
Turkish benekli
  • beneklipied, mottled

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

pinto. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pinto

MLA

“pinto.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pinto. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pinto,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pinto.

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