breedy

adj

breedy

adj

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

1

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.1997, Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain: A Novel, Atlantic Monthly Press, page 219:
  • [...] he watched Stephen Douglas jump a neat clear on a breedy bay mare who went by the name of China Lily.2010, Lyndon Stacey, Cut Throat - Page 147:
Derived terms
breediness

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