Why this word is great
SKEWBALD — [Adjective] Having a coat, typically on a horse, marked with irregular patches of white and any colour other than black. From 'skew' (of uncertain origin, but historically meaning 'skewed' or 'oblique' in this context) + 'bald' (archaic, meaning 'having white patches'). Unlike 'piebald', with its stark chiaroscuro of black and white, or 'roan', with its uniform, powdered intermingling of hairs, skewbald is a carnival of non-black pigment—chestnut, bay, or sorrel—splashed generously across a canvas of white. It is the flash of copper in a sunlit paddock, the haphazard, ginger-ale spill of pattern on a pony's flank, the heraldry of a cart-horse painted by a generous but inebriated brush—a testament to nature's cheerful, asymmetric exuberance.