Breed vs Ragamuffin - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between breed and ragamuffin

is that breed is all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies while ragamuffin is a dirty, shabbily-clothed child; an urchin.

As a verb breed

is to produce offspring sexually; to bear young.

breed

English

Alternative forms

* breede (archaic)

Verb

To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.

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To give birth to; to be the native place of.

a pond breeds''' fish; a northern country '''breeds stout men

* Shakespeare

Yet every mother breeds not sons alike.

Of animals, to mate.

To keep animals and have them reproduce in a way that improves the next generation’s qualities.

To arrange the mating of specific animals.

To propagate or grow plants trying to give them certain qualities.

To take care of in infancy and through childhood; to bring up.

* Dryden

to bring thee forth with pain, with care to breed

* Everett

born and bred on the verge of the wilderness

To yield or result in.

* Milton

Lest the place / And my quaint habits breed astonishment.

(obsolete) To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, like young before birth.

To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; sometimes followed by up .

* Bishop Burnet

No care was taken to breed him a Protestant.

* John Locke

His farm may not remove his children too far from him, or the trade he breeds them up in.

To produce or obtain by any natural process.

* John Locke

Children would breed their teeth with less danger.

To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.

* Shakespeare

Heavens rain grace / On that which breeds between them.

Synonyms

* (take care of in infancy and through childhood) raise, bring up, rear

Derived terms

* breeder * breeding * breed in the bone

Noun

(en noun)

All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.

a breed of tulip

a breed of animal

A race or lineage.

(informal) A group of people with shared characteristics.

People who were taught classical Greek and Latin at school are a dying breed .

Anagrams

* English irregular verbs ----

ragamuffin

English

Noun

(en noun)

A dirty, shabbily-clothed child; an urchin.

A breed of domestic cat which is an offshoot from the Ragdoll.

Usage notes

: Currently this word is slang, used either for anachronistic]] effect or as dialogue in [[wikipedia:historical fiction, historical fiction.

Quotations

{{timeline, 1500s=1597, 1800s=1868 1877 1882, 1900s=1906 1916}} * 1597 — v 3 *: I have led my ragamuffins where they are peppered: there's not three of my hundred and fifty left alive; and they are for the town's end, to beg during life. (Note: Quartos 1-5 "rag of Muffins" Quartos 6-8 "rag of Muffians") * 1868 — , Ch. 47 *: “But may I inquire how you intend to support the establishment? If all the pupils are little ragamuffins , I’m afraid your crop won’t be profitable in a worldly sense, Mr. Bhaer.” * 1877 — *: "They called her a little `blue' ragamuffin , father," said Harry, who ran in looking very angry; "but I have given it to them; they won't insult my sister again. * 1882 — , Ch. 12 *: 'Yes, he is mine—I took him, a homeless little ragamuffin , but I saw what was in him, and I said his name would be heard some day—behold him, observe him—was I right?' * *: After walking a ways, Jurgis met a little ragamuffin whom he hailed: "Hey, sonny!" * 1916 — , Ch. 15 *: He had found out the house of Frau von Einem without much trouble, and had performed with his ragamuffins in the servants' quarters.