单词 | half-blooded |
释义 | half-bloodedadj. 1. Related to another person by one parent only; (in early use often depreciative) illegitimate. Cf. half-blood adj. 2.Not in established use before the 20th cent. Π 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xxiv. 78 Alb. The let alone lies not in your good will. Bast. Nor in thine Lord. Alb. Halfe blouded fellow, yes. 1727 R. Samber Coffee 9 Our half-blooded Breth'ren. 1939 Jrnl. Criminal Law & Criminol. May (Suppl.) 46 The relatives of a person are the husband and wife, persons in direct line of descent, full-blooded and half-blooded siblings, and adoptive parents and adopted children. 2014 Daily News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 29 Oct. 5 There was no..prohibition on relations between half-blooded uncles and nieces, or half-blooded aunts and nephews. 2. a. Of mixed ancestry, origin, or descent; esp. having parents or ancestors of different ethnicities or nationalities. Often with reference to a person of mixed North American Indian and white European descent. Cf. half-blood adj. 1. Now somewhat dated and potentially offensive. ΘΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [adjective] > person mongrel1566 mulatto-like1719 half-breeda1762 mixed breed1775 half-caste1789 half-blood1830 three-quarter-bred1902 quarter-caste1952 biracial1963 multiracial1964 1745 T. Cibber Association 7 Of mongrel French and Scotch, a Mixture bad, Half-blooded, and cross-bred, from Sires run mad. 1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan III. 375 A half-blooded Indian, of the great Mohawk breed. 1918 Geogr. Rev. 5 28 The population contains many pure negroes and half-blooded negroes. 1982 Plains Anthropologist 27 162/1 Ella Deloria was a half-blooded Sioux Indian born on the White Swan Sioux Indian Reservation, South Dakota in 1889. 2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 18 Jan. (Week in Review section) 14/4 The hapa (half-blooded) babies fathered by military guys who promptly left. b. Of an animal: having one pure-bred parent; of mixed breed. Cf. half-blood adj. 3a. Now chiefly historical. Π 1765 Pennsylvania Gaz. 14 Mar. (advt.) Young Merry Tom, The half blooded Stallion, that covered last Season at Mr. Dames's, is now in my Possession, and will cover Mares this Season, at my Plantation. 1799 Trans. Soc. Promotion Agric., Arts & Manuf. State N.-Y. iv. xvii. 85 Major Clift..sold a bull last year for 300 dollars, and two half blooded bull calves after weaning for 50 dollars each. 1869 Vermont Chron. 10 Apr. (Agric., Literary & Secular Depts.) 1/3 The cows are half-blooded Durhams. 2017 P. W. Gates Farmer's Age (e-book ed.) Despite the deception in passing off half-blooded stock as purebreds.., these importations greatly raised the wool-producing quality of American sheep. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2022). < adj.1608 |
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