单词 | pedigreeless |
释义 | pedigreelessadj. Having no pedigree; without recorded lineage; of unknown or undistinguished ancestry. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > lowness of birth > [adjective] low-bornc1275 ungentlec1374 unnoblea1382 bastardly1552 baseborn1553 ingenerous1621 lowly born1623 earth-born1630 unpedigreed1787 birthless1817 unaristocratic1841 disconnected1847 pedigreeless1859 1859 Birmingham Daily Post 28 Nov. 2/6 Next to that gentleman as a breeder of short-horns, and not far behind him, comes Mr. Richard Stratton, of Broad Hinton, whose herd, it is said, has been chiefly produced from ‘Moss Rose’, a cow bred from some pedigreeless animal purchased in Warwickshire. 1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 608 This anxiety of the pedigreeless, traditionless, Mushroom, Abolition, Yankee, Shoddy party, shows conclusively that they are hard-up for political capital. 1906 J. Watson Dog Bk. vii. 137 They decided to extend the pale and admit the pedigreeless Kate as worthy of becoming a progenitor of the commercial breed. 1962 E. M. W. Tillyard Ess. Lit. & Educ. 126 Mr Chainmail..has made up his mind..that he will not marry a lady whose ancestry cannot be traced back to the Middle Ages, yet he fails to resist the charm of the pedigreeless Miss Touchandgo. 2001 Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News (Nexis) 25 July b5 Though pedigreeless, the dog is given the royal treatment. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1859 |
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