Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Breeding readily, as rabbits; prolific.

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Examples

  • But he had not done so, and she was glad he could be restrained and deliberate in that "breedy" sort of way.

    The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation Harry Leon Wilson 1903

  • I was just human, and I was taking the path in the world that men took -- men whom I admired, if you please; full-blooded men, lusty, breedy, chesty men, free spirits and anything but niggards in the way they foamed life away.

    Chapter 16 2010

  • Together they cast a breedy scent like that arising from dank beds of galax, and it overpowered even the reek of the strange meat.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

  • Together they cast a breedy scent like that arising from dank beds of galax, and it overpowered even the reek of the strange meat.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997

  • Time is a breedy creature: the minutes propagate hours, the hours beget days, the days raise huge families of months, and before we know it we are crowded out of this sweet life by mere surplus of

    Pipefuls Christopher Morley 1923

  • I was just human, and I was taking the path in the world that men took -- men whom I admired, if you please; full-blooded men, lusty, breedy, chesty men, free spirits and anything but niggards in the way they foamed life away.

    Chapter XVI 1913

  • The shadows of the tombs when churchyards yawn and Daniel O'Connell must be a descendant I suppose who is this used to say he was a queer breedy man great catholic all the same like a big giant in the dark.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • I was taking the path in the world that men took -- men whom I admired, if you please; full-blooded men, lusty, breedy, chesty men, free spirits and anything but niggards in the way they foamed life away.

    John Barleycorn Jack London 1896

  • 'I see they're a breedy lot,' replied the burglar.

    The Phoenix and the Carpet 1891

  • They are moreover handsome breedy looking animals, and those of them which are addicted to bucking, soon give up this vice, if ridden by capable people.

    The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed. Alice M. Hayes 1873

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