Manners vs Underbred - What's the difference?

manners | underbred |


As a noun manners

is .

As an adjective underbred is

(chiefly|horses) of inferior breeding.

manners

English

Noun

(head)
  • Etiquette (always plural in this sense).

    • Derived terms

    * good manners * bad manners * well-mannered * ill-mannered * table manners English pluralia tantum English plurals

    underbred

    English

    Alternative forms

    * under-bred

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (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.}}

    Synonyms

    * (manners) uncouth, rude, impolite

    Antonyms

    * (breeding) thoroughbred