breed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹiːd/
rhymes: -iːd
Forms: form: breeds
form: breeding
form: bred
form: bred
form: breede
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English breden, from Old English brēdan, from Proto-Germanic *brōdijaną (“to brood”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₁- (“warm”). Cognate with Scots brede, breid, Saterland Frisian briede, West Frisian briede, Low German bröden, Dutch broeden, German brüten.
Senses: examples: text: Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, and individual plants are highly heterozygous and do not breed true. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better.
ref: 2013 May-June, David Van Tassel, Lee DeHaan, “Wild Plants to the Rescue”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:
glosses: To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.
examples: text: A pond breeds fish.
text: A northern country breeds stout men.
text: Yet every mother breeds not sons alike.
ref: c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
glosses: To give birth to; to be the native place of.
glosses: To mate.
raw_tags: of animals
glosses: To keep (animals) and have (them) reproduce in a way that improves the next generation's qualities.
examples: text: She wanted to breed her cow to the neighbor's registered bull.
glosses: To arrange the mating of (specific animals).
raw_tags: with to or with
examples: text: He tries to breed blue roses.
glosses: To propagate or grow (plants) in an effort to give (them) certain qualities.
examples: text: born and bred
text: Ah wretched me! by fates averſe, decreed, / To bring thee forth with pain, with care to breed!
ref: a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “The First Book of Homer’s Ilias”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume IV, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, →OCLC, page 437:
text: born and bred on the verge of the wilderness
ref: 1859, Edward Everett, An Oration on the Occasion of the Dedication of the Statue of Mr. Webster:
glosses: To take care of in infancy and through childhood; to bring up.
examples: text: disaster breeds famine
text: familiarity breeds contempt
text: lest the place / And my queint habits breed astonishment
ref: 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC, page 6, lines 156–157:
english: Comus
translation: Comus
glosses: To yield or result in.
glosses: To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated or to grow, like young before birth.
examples: text: No care was taken to breed him a Protestant.
ref: a. 1716 (date written), [Gilbert] Burnet, edited by [Gilbert Burnet Jr.], Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Thomas Ward […], published 1724, →OCLC:
text: His farm may not […] remove his children too far from him, or the trade he breeds them up in.
ref: 1691, [John Locke], Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest, and Raising the Value of Money. […], London: […] Awnsham and John Churchill, […], published 1692, →OCLC:
glosses: To educate; to instruct; to bring up.
raw_tags: as breed up
examples: text: Children would breed their teeth with much less danger.
ref: 1693, [John Locke], “§13”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To produce or obtain by any natural process.
examples: text: Fair encounter
Of two most rare affections! Heavens rain grace
On that which breed between 'em!
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
glosses: To have birth; to be produced, developed, or multiplied.
examples: text: 2018, Cassandra Dee, Paying My Boyfriend's Debt: A Billionaire Bad Boy Romance, Cassandra Dee Romance via PublishDrive
“God, I love your ass,” he says, his voice almost a growl. “I'm gonna breed this ass tonight.”
text: “ Yes,” I said. “You want to fuck me, and I submit to you. My body is yours. Stuff me. Fill me. Breed my ass. Seed me, my love.
ref: 2015, David Holly, The Heart's Eternal Desire, Bold Strokes Books Inc, →ISBN:
text: Then...you get...bred.
ref: year unknown, Tymber Dalton, Disorder in the House [Suncoast Society], Siren-BookStrand, page 32
text: “I can't...can't last, baby.” / “I don't care. Come inside me. Breed me.”
ref: 2017, Casper Graham, Same Script, Different Cast [Scripts & Lyrics Trilogy], Siren-BookStrand, →ISBN, page 41:
text: "Are you clean?" he asked. / "Yeah, I get tested recently." / "Perfect. Breed me.”
ref: 2017, Casper Graham, Nothing Short of a Miracle [Scripts & Lyrics Trilogy], Siren-BookStrand, →ISBN, page 19:
glosses: To ejaculate inside (a person or a bodily orifice of same); to creampie.
Synonyms: sense: take care of in infancy and through childhood
word: raise
sense: take care of in infancy and through childhood
word: bring up
sense: take care of in infancy and through childhood
word: rear
sense: ejaculate inside
word: creampie
sense: ejaculate inside
word: cream
Derived terms: best of breed
breedable
breedbate
breeder
breed in and in
breeding
breed like rabbits
breed up
breedy
colorbreed
cross-breed
crossbreed
inbreed
interbreed
misbreed
outbreed
overbreed
rebreed
self-breed
slave-breeding
unbreed
underbreed
upbreed
xbreed
Related terms: breed in the bone