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adjective having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats
originFrom Old English burna (“stream, brook”) + hyll (“hill”). The surname could either derive from the village in England or be an Americanized spelling of South German Brindl and Bründl.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0