half-breed
See also: halfbreed
English
Alternative forms
- halfbreed
Etymology
half- + breed
Noun
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 1029993343:
- 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, Kirkconnell, Watson, “Military Annals of Victoria”, in Victoria County Centennial History, Lindsay, Ontario: Watchman-Warder Press, OCLC 58877432, 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.
- 1973 March 4, John Kifner, “The Ghosts Dance Once Again at Wounded Knee”, in The New York Times, ISSN 0362-4331:
- Some oppose A.I.M. leaders as outsiders; some resent the leadership of Mr. Wilson; full‐blooded Indians resent halfbreeds; the have‐nots resent those with relative wealth.
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- A hybrid animal or plant.
Synonyms
- breed (short form for half-breed)
Translations
derogatory: person of racially mixed ancestry
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Adjective
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
having one purebred parent; hybrid; of mixed racial parentage or ancestry
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See also
- half-caste
- mestizo
- metis, métis, Metis, Métis
- mixed-race
- mulatto