Breeding vs Underbred - What's the difference?
breeding | underbred |
The process through which propagation, growth or development occurs.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author=
, title= The act of insemination by natural or artificial means.
The act of copulation in animals.
The good manners regarded as characteristic of the aristocracy and conferred by heredity.
Nurture; education; formation of manners.
* Shakespeare
Descent; pedigree; extraction.
* Shakespeare
(gay slang) Ejaculation inside the rectum during bareback anal sex, usually applied to gay pornography.
Of, relating to or used for breeding.
(chiefly, horses) of inferior breeding
* {{quote-book, 1902, title=Cross country with horse and hound, author=Frank Sherman Peer
, passage=I prefer both sire and dam to be well-bred, but a well-bred mare and an underbred horse will produce a faster animal than a thoroughbred horse and an underbred mare.}}
lacking in manners or finesse
* {{quote-book, 1923, title=
, passage=Himself, he felt the most underbred of all; he was afraid of these Utopians: snobbish and abject before them, he was like a mannerless earthy lout in a drawing-room, and he was bitterly ashamed of his own abjection.}}
As adjectives the difference between breeding and underbred
is that breeding is of, relating to or used for breeding while underbred is (chiefly|horses) of inferior breeding.As a noun breeding
is the process through which propagation, growth or development occurs.As a verb breeding
is .breeding
English
(wikipedia breeding)Noun
(-)David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan
Wild Plants to the Rescue, volume=101, issue=3, page=222, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
- She had her breeding at my father's charge.
- Honest gentlemen, I know not your breeding .
Adjective
(-)- Your toothbrush is a breeding ground for bacteria.
Derived terms
* breeding groundVerb
(head)- Through genetic manipulation and harsh training, I am breeding a species of super-dogs to take over the world.