skewbald

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: skew=bald

CIDE DICTIONARY

skewbald, a. 

 Marked with spots and patches of white and some color other than black; -- usually distinguished from piebald, in which the colors are properly white and black. Said of horses.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

skewbald, adj. & n.
--adj. (of an animal) with irregular patches of white and another colour (properly not black) (cf. PIEBALD).
--n. a skewbald animal, esp. a horse.

Etymology

ME skued (orig. uncert.), after PIEBALD