half-bred

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half-bred (h

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adj.

Having only one parent that is purebred; half-blooded. Used of animals.

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Adj.

half-bred - (of animals) having only one purebred parent

half-blooded, half-breed

animal, animate being, beast, creature, fauna, brute - a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

crossbred - bred from parents of different varieties or species

Translations

half-bred [ˈhɑːfbred] ADJ → mestizo

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Some half-bred critic whom I had read made me believe that English could be written without them, and had better be written so, and I did not escape from this lamentable error until I had produced with weariness and vexation of spirit several pieces of prose wholly composed of monosyllables.

My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context

Have you noticed, Sir Patrick, that these half-bred sort of people are almost invariably rude when they are ill?

Man And Wife by Collins, Wilkie View in context

He is brought down to Chertsey, by men who seem to have taken a violent fancy to him, whether he will or no; and is put through a window to rob a house; and then, just at the very moment when he is going to alarm the inmates, and so do the very thing that would set him all to rights, there rushes into the way, a blundering dog of a half-bred butler, and shoots him

Oliver Twist Or The Parish Boy's Progress by Dickens, Charles View in context

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