Half-bred

Quick meaning: Half-bred is an adjective meaning not well-bred; imperfectly trained or ill-acquainted to good manners.

Meaning

not well-bred; imperfectly trained or ill-acquainted to good manners.

More Meanings

1. (of humans, often derogatory) half-breed (of mixed ethnicity)
2. A half-blooded animal.
3. A half-breed
4. (obsolete, of animals) Half-blooded.

Example Sentences

"Set out eh whiskey. Jimmy, ye bum! Belly the bar, ye half bred scum!

The Leicesters and half-breds are purchased by farmers who keep no breeding stock: they are well turniped during the winter, and clipped and fattened in the following season.

He that is but Half a Philoſopher, is in danger of being an Atheiſt; an Half-Phyſician is apt to turn Empiric; an Half-Bred man is conceited in his Addreſs, and troubleſome in his Converſation.

The progeny were tame, worked in yoke, exceeded the ox in strength, and retained the wallowing habit. All the half-bred heifers were fertile, but the half-bred bulls were not. Colonel George C. Thompson, of Shawnee Springs, Ky., concurrently with Mr. Wickliffe's experiment, domesticated a buffalo bull and three buffalo cows; they were thoroughly docile, hardy, and long-lived.

Word Forms

• half-breds

Synonyms for half-bred

Depending on context, synonyms include crossbred, half-blooded, half-breed.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include half-blooded, crossbred, half-breed, unbred, underbred, unpedigreed.

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