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half-breed

NOUN
  1. an offensive term for an offspring of parents of different racial group (especially of Caucasian and American Indian ancestry)
ADJECTIVE
  1. (of animals) having only one purebred parent

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  • Dogs of every description from the poodle to the St. Bernard and from the wolfhound to the half-breed dachshund, which is half German and half Bolshevik and looks the part. The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919
  • They were moored, stem and stern, in a grog-shop, making a great noise, with a crowd of Indians and hungry half-breeds about them, and with a fair prospect of being stripped and dirked, or left to pass the night in the calabozo. Chapter XXVII. The Sunday Wash-Up-On Shore-A Set-To-A Grandee-“Sail Ho!”-A Fandango
  • He robs a pore half-breed of a cayuse, and shoots up a Chink who's panning tailings, and generally and variously becomes too pronounced, till he's run outen camp. The Passing of Cock-Eye Blacklock
  • Portrayed as having light skin, long hair and a shapely body, the Jezebel was sometimes referred to as a mulatto or half-breed. Don’t Bring Home a White Boy
  • And the removal of the cruel whip-hand, or in other words the bulldozing half-breed, had brought with it a joyous reaction. In a Far Country
  • Of an inquiring and gregarious nature he went as much among the half-breeds -- or 'metis', as they are called -- and Indians as among the officers of the Hudson's The Translation of a Savage, Complete
  • The swart face of the older half-breed flushed angrily, as he drew himself up and promised in good, round terms that he would travel his leader off his legs, and would then be delighted to plant him in the snow. TO THE MAN ON THE TRAIL
  • They contrasted strongly with the half-breeds, or mestizoes, who, repulsed like the former, vented their indignation in cries and protestations. The Pearl of Lima A Story of True Love
  • Badawin despise all half-breeds (Arab sires and country mares), The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • The girl and baby disappeared as soon as I saw my father; which was not surprising, for he could not be called a prepossessing half-breed. Lazarre
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