Meanings
adjectivebroken-winded (comparative more broken-winded, superlative most broken-winded)
comparative more broken-winded · superlative most broken-winded
- archaicSuffering from a shortness of breath or similar respiratory problem.
My horse would have trotted to Clifton within the hour, if left to himself, and I have almost broke my arm with pulling him in to that cursed broken-winded jade’s pace.
1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter XI, in Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC
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