单词 | seed, breed, and generation |
释义 | > as lemmasseed, breed, and generation P4. colloquial (chiefly Irish English). seed, breed, and generation and variants: an entire family including all extended relations; (in extended use) all the members of an ethnicity, race, or type. Hence also: a person's deep-rooted nature or sense of identity. ΚΠ 1767 Ann. Reg. 1766 199/2 I..began to give a full account of all that I knew of my breed, seed, and generation. 1793 M. Pilkington Rosina V. xxi. 176 I'm sure you would not care if myself and all my seed, breed and generation, were at the devil, so as you could serve your own turn by it. 1833 Morning Post 13 Aug. This contankerus fellow..told me to my face that all the breed, seed, and generations of the old stock of the Royal O'Connors, of Belinagar, were no better than—, saving your favour. 1860 Lancaster Gaz. 28 Apr. 4/6 The exclusion of the whole Napoleonic seed and breed from sovereign power. 1894 San Antonio (Texas) Daily Light 10 Apr. Those heathen Chinee..may do for a Sunday school teaparty, but ‘no bueno’ is the verdict of the American people upon the whole seed, breed and generation of them. 1949 Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Sept. 579/4 They come from County Down..They are Down men in the marrow of their bones..the breed, seed and generation of them is Down. 1972 J. B. Keane Lett. Irish Parish Priest in Celebrated Lett. (1996) 88 Knowing the seed, breed, and generation of Henry Dring I guessed that the thought of losing one penny would be sufficient to make him abandon his course. 2015 A. Titley tr. M. Ó Cadhain Dirty Dust i. 10 I know far too much about her, and every single one of her breed and seed, Maggie. < as lemmas |
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