The Collaborative International Dictionary
Half-bred \Half"-bred`\ (-br[e^]d`), a.
Half-blooded. [Obs.]
Imperfectly acquainted with the rules of good-breeding; not well trained.
--Atterbury.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context obsolete English) half-blooded 2 Imperfectly acquainted with the rules of good breeding; not well trained.
WordNet
adj. (of animals) having only one purebred parent [syn: half-blooded, half-breed]
Usage examples of "half-bred".
After some very interesting exchanges of reminiscences about incurable millers, roarers, lungers, half-bred blood-cattle, gingers, and slugs, which led inevitably to still more interesting stories of the chase, during the course of which both gentlemen found themselves perfectly in accord in their contempt of such ignoble persons as roadsters and skirters, and their conviction that the soundest of all maxims was, Get over the ground if it breaks your neck, formality was at an end between them, and his lordship was not only begging Bertram to call him Chuffy, as everyone else did, but promising to show him some of the rarer sights in town.
At first their manners, gentle and pliable, contrast pleasantly with the roughness of the half-breds, Huwaytat and Maknawi, who have many of the demerits of the Fellah, without acquiring the merits of the Bedawi.
Vivi, deciding that they should use a half-bred unregistered throw-out as their entry to the sales, had bought one from a knacker's yard for peanuts.