S vs Underbred - What's the difference?
s | underbred |
The nineteenth letter of the .
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur
Symbols for SI units
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(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.}}
