breedy

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adjective

Apt or ready to breed, produce; breeding readily; prolific

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Meanings

adjectivebreedy (comparative more breedy, superlative most breedy)

comparative more breedy · superlative most breedy

  1. Apt or ready to breed, produce; breeding readily; prolific

    [...] he watched Stephen Douglas jump a neat clear on a breedy bay mare who went by the name of China Lily.

    2010, Lyndon Stacey, Cut Throat - Page 147
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    All three girls now had gathered about the table to gauge his progress. Together they cast a breedy scent like that arising from dank beds of galax, and it overpowered even the reek of the strange meat.

    1997, Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain: A Novel, Atlantic Monthly Press, page 219

Origin

From breed + -y. In some senses, perhaps a clipping of breeding.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with breedy

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APA

breedy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/breedy

MLA

“breedy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/breedy. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “breedy,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/breedy.

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