Pinto

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈpɪntəʊ/

Origin

Spanish pinto ("painted, mottled").

Full definition of pinto

Noun

1. (zoology) A horse with a patchy coloration that includes white.

Adjective

1. Pied, mottled.
• 1963, 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. — Thomas Pynchon, V.

Derived terms

• pinto bean

Anagrams

• opt in, opt-in, pinot, piton, point