half-breed
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See also: halfbreed
English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
half-breed (plural half-breeds)
- (derogatory) A person of mixed racial parentage or ancestry, especially one of mixed white and American Indian parentage (metis, métis, Metis, Métis; mestizo).
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- 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.
- 1921, Watson Kirkconnell, “Military Annals of Victoria”, in Victoria County Centennial History[1], Lindsay, Ontario: Watchman-Warder Press, →OCLC, page 186:
- The half-breeds or Metis along the Saskatchewan River asked that they be given a legal title to the land which they occupied. […] The half-breeds found that constitutional agitation was hopeless and began open hostilities.
- A hybrid animal or plant.
Synonyms[edit]
- breed (short form for half-breed)
Translations[edit]
derogatory: person of racially mixed ancestry
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Adjective[edit]
half-breed
- (of a person, derogatory) Having dual heritage; having mixed racial parentage or ancestry.
- (of an animal or plant) Hybridized; having one purebred parent; descended from parents of different breeds or with different traits.
Translations[edit]
having one purebred parent; hybrid; of mixed racial parentage or ancestry