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HALF-BREED
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An offensive term for an offspring of parents of different racial group (especially of Caucasian and American Indian ancestry)
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("half-breed" is a kind of...):
half-caste (an offensive term for the offspring of parents of different racial groups or cultures)
Domain usage:
depreciation; derogation; disparagement (a communication that belittles somebody or something)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of animals) having only one purebred parent
Synonyms:
half-blooded; half-bred; half-breed
Classified under:
Similar:
crossbred (bred from parents of different varieties or species)
Domain category:
animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)
Context examples:
We ordered the camp to be pitched, however, and, leaving the Indians to arrange it, we four, with the two half-breeds, proceeded up the narrow gorge.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Perrault was a French-Canadian, and swarthy; but François was a French-Canadian half-breed, and twice as swarthy.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Three white men, then, two half-breeds, one negro, and three Indians made up the personnel of the little expedition which lay waiting for its instructions at Manaos before starting upon its singular quest.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
That was fair of François, he decided, and the half-breed began his rise in Buck’s estimation.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
It was at Para also that we engaged Gomez and Manuel, two half-breeds from up the river, just come down with a cargo of redwood.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A Scotch half-breed took charge of him and his mates, and in company with a dozen other dog-teams he started back over the weary trail to Dawson.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
"Yes, sir, war drums," said Gomez, the half-breed.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Scotch half-breed slowly retraced his steps to the camp they had left.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
The half-breed shrugged his broad shoulders.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And dreaming there by the Yukon bank, with lazy eyes blinking at the fire, these sounds and sights of another world would make the hair to rise along his back and stand on end across his shoulders and up his neck, till he whimpered low and suppressedly, or growled softly, and the half-breed cook shouted at him, Hey, you Buck, wake up!
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
