breedy

English

Etymology

From breed +‎ -y. In some senses, perhaps a clipping of breeding.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːdi

Adjective

breedy (comparative more breedy, superlative most breedy)

1. Apt or ready to breed, produce; breeding readily; prolific
   • 1997, Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain: A Novel, Atlantic Monthly Press, page 219:

     All three girls now had gathered about the table to gauge his progress. Together they cast a breedy scent like that arising from dank beds of galax, and it overpowered even the reek of the strange meat.

   • 2010, Lyndon Stacey, Cut Throat - Page 147:

     [...] he watched Stephen Douglas jump a neat clear on a breedy bay mare who went by the name of China Lily.

Derived terms

• breediness

Anagrams

• breyde