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▪ I. † ˈbreachy, a.1 Obs. or dial.
[Cf. bracky.]
Brackish. (In Chandler, perh. ‘of alkaline taste’.)
1662J. Chandler Van Helmont's Oriat. 158 Writers have distinguished..Odours, and Savours, as sweet, bitter, salt, sharp, breachy, soure. 1875Parish Sussex Gloss. (E.D.S.), Breachy, brackish, applied to water.
▪ II. breachy, a.2 Chiefly U. S.|ˈbriːtʃɪ|
[f. breach + -y1.]
1. Of horses and cattle: Apt to break fences, and get out of inclosures.
1780E. Parkman Diary (1899) 275 To my sorrow, my Oxen have been breachy at Mr. Isaac Parker's and let in Cattle with them into his Cornfield. 1800Addison Amer. Law Rep. 258 McKinney's horses were breachy. 1810Nat. Hist. in Ann. Reg. 628/2, I never saw a breachy Tunis sheep. 1838Haliburton Clockm. I. 141 They are the most breachy of the two and ought to go to pound themselves. 1899A. Brown Tiverton Tales 133 That cussed breachy cow..hooked it [sc. a fence] down.
2. Characterized by breaches. |