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home-bred, a.
[home n. 15 i.]
1. Bred or reared at home; often synonymous with home-born: native, indigenous; domestic.
1587Harrison England ii. vi. (1877) i. 148 Conserues of old fruits, forren and home-bred. 1592Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 764 A mischief worse than civil home-bred strife. 1609Bible (Douay) Gen. xvii. 12 As wel the homebred shal he circumcised, as the bought servant. 1662Stillingfe Orig. Sacr. iii. ii. §2 The native and home-bred Greeks, such as Aristotle and Epicurus. 1791T. Newte Tour Eng. & Scot. 237 There are no home-bred agues. 1869Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) III. xiii. 308 Foreign invaders or home-bred rebels.
2. Of homely breeding; lacking breadth of culture and experience; unpolished; unsophisticated.
1602Carew Cornwall (1811) 172 Not only the homebred multitude..but even persons of the better calling. 1691Norris Pract. Disc. 340 The young Home-bred Heir that thinks his Father's Mannour a considerable part of the World, is sent abroad to see more of it. 1758Johnson Idler No. 49 ⁋2 A story..which will strike a home-bred citizen. 1827–48Hare Guesses Ser. ii. (1873) 520 Home-bred wits are like home-made wines, sweet, luscious, spiritless, without body, and ill to keep. |