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breedy

adj

Etymology

From breed + -y. In some senses, perhaps a clipping of breeding.

  1. derived from *bʰreh₁-✻ — “warm”
  2. inherited from *brōdijaną✻ — “to brood”
  3. inherited from brēdan
  4. inherited from breden
  5. suffixed as breedy — “breed + -y”

Definitions

  1. Apt or ready to breed, produce

    Apt or ready to breed, produce; breeding readily; prolific

    • All three girls now had gathered about the table to gauge his progress. Together they cast a breedy scent like that arising from dank beds of galax, and it overpowered even the reek of the strange meat.
    • [...] he watched Stephen Douglas jump a neat clear on a breedy bay mare who went by the name of China Lily.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA