half-breedn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈhɑːfbriːd/, U.S.

/ˈhæfˌbrid/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: half adj., breed n.

Etymology: < half adj. + breed n. Compare half-caste n. Compare also earlier half-bred adj.

A. n.

a. Originally and chiefly North American. A person who is descended from parents or ancestors of differing ethnic (or occasionally national) origin; spec. a person of mixed white and North American Indian descent. Now derogatory and offensive.

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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun] > person

mongrel1542

of (the) half blood1697

half-caste1758

half-breed1760

lip-lap1798

quarter-breed1821

half-blood1826

half-and-half1827

quarter-blood1827

quarter-caste1859

mixed blooda1862

brown1862

miscegen1864

yellowbelly1867

breed1870

redbone1890

miscegenate1898

high yellow1910

samba1958

lightie1991

the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun] > person white and Amerindian

mestizo1598

topass1680

half-breed1760

Paulist1772

bois brûlé1805

mameluco1809

metis1816

Paulista1817

mestino1842

ladino1877

redbone1890

mestizaje1943

cholo1959

1732 S.-Carolina Gaz. 30 Dec. 3/1 Lewis, together with a half Breed, Brother to James Welsh, deceased, were found dead.

1760 Newport (Rhode Island) Mercury 22 Apr. 2/1 On the 18th a Half-Breed, who is a Leader and Head Warrior..came..to Fort Augusta.

1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina 440 His mother being a Chactaw slave, and his father a half breed, betwixt a Creek and white man.

1807 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi (1810) iii. App. 33 A few civilized Indians and half breeds.

1860 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) V. 415 The laws..interfered with the marriages of English and Irish, and forbade the inheritance of half-breeds.

1935 H. L. Davis Honey in Horn i. 4 A couple of bad-acting sons who got drunk, fought and trained around with thieving half-breeds.

2002 F. Rings in L. Purcell Black Chicks Talking 94 The mentality was the same at school: I was a half-breed and wasn't supposed to get too far.

b. In extended use: any person or thing having mixed origins or characteristics; a combination of two different or incongruous elements.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > a mixture > of incongruous elements

participle?a1475

mongrel1582

centaur1606

mule1631

crossc1796

half-and-halfc1814

chimera1832

half-breed1846

hybrid1850

piebald1897

1846 Quincy (Illinois) Whig 28 Jan. All the Jacks in the county, consisting of T. H. Owen, John Harper, Backenstos, Bedell, and a few ‘half breeds’.

1877 Inter Ocean (Chicago) 19 June 8/4 It is a comedy piece, with a strongly sensational bias, something of a half-breed, as it were, between a dime novel and a legitimate drama.

1955 R. M. Pearl How to know Minerals & Rocks 63 Combinations of copper and native silver are called ‘half-breeds’.

2018 Irish Independent (Nexis) 17 Mar. (Review section) 22 Metal Gear Survive... A curious half-breed that resembles the Metal Gear stealth template but wants to be something new.

†2. With reference to a person: the fact of having parents or ancestors of differing ethnic origin; mixed descent. With reference to an animal: a mixed breed or stock. Obsolete.

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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun]

mongrelism1598

mixture1634

half-breed1775

half-caste1798

mixed blood1817

Eurasianism1833

mongrelity1859

mulism1861

miscegenation1863

miscegenesis1880

miscegeny1887

métissage1891

half-castism1896

1762 J. Shebbeare One More Let. People of Eng. 2 Every province,..supported in the strongest manner by all their countrymen of the half-breed.

1807 Monthly Mag. Aug. 89/2 A number of the South Down tups, and several of the half breed, were sold at considerable prices.

1858 C. L. Flint Milch Cows (1860) ii. 69 Qualities which are, in a measure, artificial..change not only with the breed of one species, but with the different individuals of the same breed, of the same half-breed, and often of the same family.

3. An animal of mixed breed.

1806 Ann. Rev. & Hist. Lit. 1805 4 xvi. 764/2 Mr. Lawrence recommends the Dorset, as they have been found to produce the largest half-breeds from the Spanish ram.

1884 Trans. Wisconsin State Agric. Soc. 22 422 Now you come to make a cross to a pure bred bull, and the product is a half breed.

1950 Sunday Amer.-Statesman (Austin, Texas) 6 Aug. 20/2 Our favorite coon dog was an 80-pound half-breed named Blue.

2005 V. De Behr et al. in V. Juliand & W. Martin-Rosset Growing Horse 312 (caption) Average concentration of the various plasmatic metabolites in Ardennes adult draught horses and foals, compared to concentrations in half-breeds.

4. U.S. Politics. (A derogatory name for) a member of a moderate faction of the Republican Party during the 1880s, who condemned political patronage and advocated reform of the civil service, and who were opposed by the Stalwarts (see stalwart n. 2a). Chiefly in plural. Now historical.

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society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > Republican Party > member or adherent of > type of

black and tan1867

half-breed1881

1881 Daily Evening Democrat (Shelbyville, Indiana) 24 Feb. Whatever may be the alleged faults of the ‘half breeds’, as their Stalwart brethren delight to call them, withholding good advice on important occasions is not one of them.

1981 P. F. Boller Presidential Anecd. 175 The Half Breeds continued to regard him as a Stalwart; and the Stalwarts regarded him as a renegade.

1995 Grand Royal No. 2. 56/1 Garfield's nomination had been the result of a compromise between two warring Republican factions, the Stalwarts and the Half-Breeds.

B. adj.

1. Originally and chiefly North American. Of a person: descended from parents or ancestors of differing ethnic origin; spec. of mixed white and North American Indian descent. Now derogatory and offensive.

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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [adjective] > person

mongrel1566

mulatto-like1719

half-breeda1762

mixed breed1775

half-caste1789

half-blood1830

three-quarter-bred1902

quarter-caste1952

biracial1963

multiracial1964

the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [adjective] > person > person white and Amerindian

half-breeda1762

metis1846

ladino1934

Paulistic1941

a1762 S. Niles Indian Wars in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1861) 4th Ser. V. ii. 538 One Molton, a half-breed fellow,..seized the fellow that wounded Mr. Atkins.

1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. II. 12 Half-breed boys were paddling about in their little canoes.

1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians li A half-breed woman in the fort.

1952 E. Mittelhölzer Children of Kaywana (1959) 206 It was Rosaria, a half-breed slave—half Carib, half Spanish—who caused the trouble.

2005 B. Rai Whisper viii. 59 So you ain't knockin' round with that half-breed mofo Billy?

2. Designating an animal of mixed breed.

1784 A. Wight Present State Husbandry in Scotl. III: Pt. ii. 403 I measured the wool on one fleece 12 inches, which was shorn from a half-breed ewe.

1850 Desultoria 108 My dog was making the acquaintance of the huge half-breed dog of the driver.

1917 J. Homs Markets Agric. Implements & Machinery S. Afr. (U.S. Dept. Commerce) Special Agents Series No. 146 ix. 224 The sample skins of half-breed animals that have been sent to Europe have been highly commended.

2014 Indian Express (Nexis) 7 Mar. The department organises competitions to..make horse breeding a source of income for small and marginal farmers and produce half-breed horses for sports, polo and police duties.

Compounds

U.S. As a modifier, designating an area of land allocated by the U.S. government to people of mixed white and North American Indian descent, as half-breed reservation, half-breed tract, etc. Now historical (and likely to be considered offensive).

ΚΠ

1832 Amer. & Commerc. Advertiser (Baltimore) 5 Nov. The Half-breed Country.

1855 in S. A. Douglas Senate Rep. (1856) 12 Mar. 18 Your purchase of Kansas half-breed lands.

1925 Minnesota Hist. 6 228 The small half-breed settlement of Pembina on the Red River.

2016 G. Olson Ioway Life i. 14 Several mixed-race Ioways eventually moved to the Nemaha Half-Breed Reservation.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2022).

单词	half-breed
释义	half-breedn.adj. Brit. /ˈhɑːfbriːd/, U.S. /ˈhæfˌbrid/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: half adj., breed n. Etymology: < half adj. + breed n. Compare half-caste n. Compare also earlier half-bred adj. A. n. 1. a. Originally and chiefly North American. A person who is descended from parents or ancestors of differing ethnic (or occasionally national) origin; spec. a person of mixed white and North American Indian descent. Now derogatory and offensive. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun] > person mongrel1542 of (the) half blood1697 half-caste1758 half-breed1760 lip-lap1798 quarter-breed1821 half-blood1826 half-and-half1827 quarter-blood1827 quarter-caste1859 mixed blooda1862 brown1862 miscegen1864 yellowbelly1867 breed1870 redbone1890 miscegenate1898 high yellow1910 samba1958 lightie1991 the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun] > person white and Amerindian mestizo1598 topass1680 half-breed1760 Paulist1772 bois brûlé1805 mameluco1809 metis1816 Paulista1817 mestino1842 ladino1877 redbone1890 mestizaje1943 cholo1959 1732 S.-Carolina Gaz. 30 Dec. 3/1 Lewis, together with a half Breed, Brother to James Welsh, deceased, were found dead. 1760 Newport (Rhode Island) Mercury 22 Apr. 2/1 On the 18th a Half-Breed, who is a Leader and Head Warrior..came..to Fort Augusta. 1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina 440 His mother being a Chactaw slave, and his father a half breed, betwixt a Creek and white man. 1807 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi (1810) iii. App. 33 A few civilized Indians and half breeds. 1860 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) V. 415 The laws..interfered with the marriages of English and Irish, and forbade the inheritance of half-breeds. 1935 H. L. Davis Honey in Horn i. 4 A couple of bad-acting sons who got drunk, fought and trained around with thieving half-breeds. 2002 F. Rings in L. Purcell Black Chicks Talking 94 The mentality was the same at school: I was a half-breed and wasn't supposed to get too far. b. In extended use: any person or thing having mixed origins or characteristics; a combination of two different or incongruous elements. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > a mixture > of incongruous elements participle?a1475 mongrel1582 centaur1606 mule1631 crossc1796 half-and-halfc1814 chimera1832 half-breed1846 hybrid1850 piebald1897 1846 Quincy (Illinois) Whig 28 Jan. All the Jacks in the county, consisting of T. H. Owen, John Harper, Backenstos, Bedell, and a few ‘half breeds’. 1877 Inter Ocean (Chicago) 19 June 8/4 It is a comedy piece, with a strongly sensational bias, something of a half-breed, as it were, between a dime novel and a legitimate drama. 1955 R. M. Pearl How to know Minerals & Rocks 63 Combinations of copper and native silver are called ‘half-breeds’. 2018 Irish Independent (Nexis) 17 Mar. (Review section) 22 Metal Gear Survive... A curious half-breed that resembles the Metal Gear stealth template but wants to be something new. †2. With reference to a person: the fact of having parents or ancestors of differing ethnic origin; mixed descent. With reference to an animal: a mixed breed or stock. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun] mongrelism1598 mixture1634 half-breed1775 half-caste1798 mixed blood1817 Eurasianism1833 mongrelity1859 mulism1861 miscegenation1863 miscegenesis1880 miscegeny1887 métissage1891 half-castism1896 1762 J. Shebbeare One More Let. People of Eng. 2 Every province,..supported in the strongest manner by all their countrymen of the half-breed. 1807 Monthly Mag. Aug. 89/2 A number of the South Down tups, and several of the half breed, were sold at considerable prices. 1858 C. L. Flint Milch Cows (1860) ii. 69 Qualities which are, in a measure, artificial..change not only with the breed of one species, but with the different individuals of the same breed, of the same half-breed, and often of the same family. 3. An animal of mixed breed. Π 1806 Ann. Rev. & Hist. Lit. 1805 4 xvi. 764/2 Mr. Lawrence recommends the Dorset, as they have been found to produce the largest half-breeds from the Spanish ram. 1884 Trans. Wisconsin State Agric. Soc. 22 422 Now you come to make a cross to a pure bred bull, and the product is a half breed. 1950 Sunday Amer.-Statesman (Austin, Texas) 6 Aug. 20/2 Our favorite coon dog was an 80-pound half-breed named Blue. 2005 V. De Behr et al. in V. Juliand & W. Martin-Rosset Growing Horse 312 (caption) Average concentration of the various plasmatic metabolites in Ardennes adult draught horses and foals, compared to concentrations in half-breeds. 4. U.S. Politics. (A derogatory name for) a member of a moderate faction of the Republican Party during the 1880s, who condemned political patronage and advocated reform of the civil service, and who were opposed by the Stalwarts (see stalwart n. 2a). Chiefly in plural. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > Republican Party > member or adherent of > type of black and tan1867 half-breed1881 1881 Daily Evening Democrat (Shelbyville, Indiana) 24 Feb. Whatever may be the alleged faults of the ‘half breeds’, as their Stalwart brethren delight to call them, withholding good advice on important occasions is not one of them. 1981 P. F. Boller Presidential Anecd. 175 The Half Breeds continued to regard him as a Stalwart; and the Stalwarts regarded him as a renegade. 1995 Grand Royal No. 2. 56/1 Garfield's nomination had been the result of a compromise between two warring Republican factions, the Stalwarts and the Half-Breeds. B. adj. 1. Originally and chiefly North American. Of a person: descended from parents or ancestors of differing ethnic origin; spec. of mixed white and North American Indian descent. Now derogatory and offensive. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [adjective] > person mongrel1566 mulatto-like1719 half-breeda1762 mixed breed1775 half-caste1789 half-blood1830 three-quarter-bred1902 quarter-caste1952 biracial1963 multiracial1964 the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [adjective] > person > person white and Amerindian half-breeda1762 metis1846 ladino1934 Paulistic1941 a1762 S. Niles Indian Wars in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1861) 4th Ser. V. ii. 538 One Molton, a half-breed fellow,..seized the fellow that wounded Mr. Atkins. 1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. II. 12 Half-breed boys were paddling about in their little canoes. 1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians li A half-breed woman in the fort. 1952 E. Mittelhölzer Children of Kaywana (1959) 206 It was Rosaria, a half-breed slave—half Carib, half Spanish—who caused the trouble. 2005 B. Rai Whisper viii. 59 So you ain't knockin' round with that half-breed mofo Billy? 2. Designating an animal of mixed breed. Π 1784 A. Wight Present State Husbandry in Scotl. III: Pt. ii. 403 I measured the wool on one fleece 12 inches, which was shorn from a half-breed ewe. 1850 Desultoria 108 My dog was making the acquaintance of the huge half-breed dog of the driver. 1917 J. Homs Markets Agric. Implements & Machinery S. Afr. (U.S. Dept. Commerce) Special Agents Series No. 146 ix. 224 The sample skins of half-breed animals that have been sent to Europe have been highly commended. 2014 Indian Express (Nexis) 7 Mar. The department organises competitions to..make horse breeding a source of income for small and marginal farmers and produce half-breed horses for sports, polo and police duties. Compounds U.S. As a modifier, designating an area of land allocated by the U.S. government to people of mixed white and North American Indian descent, as half-breed reservation, half-breed tract, etc. Now historical (and likely to be considered offensive). ΚΠ 1832 Amer. & Commerc. Advertiser (Baltimore) 5 Nov. The Half-breed Country. 1855 in S. A. Douglas Senate Rep. (1856) 12 Mar. 18 Your purchase of Kansas half-breed lands. 1925 Minnesota Hist. 6 228 The small half-breed settlement of Pembina on the Red River. 2016 G. Olson Ioway Life i. 14 Several mixed-race Ioways eventually moved to the Nemaha Half-Breed Reservation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2022). < n.adj.1732
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