quarter-breed

[ kwawr-ter-breed ]

noun

, Disparaging and Offensive.

1. a contemptuous term used to refer to a person with one white grandparent, especially a person of American Indian ancestry.

Word History and Origins

Origin of quarter-breed¹

First recorded in 1820–30

Example Sentences

El-Soo was a full-blooded Indian, yet she exceeded all the half-breed and quarter-breed girls.

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The voices of children from other quarter-breed cottages, playing along the beach, added cheer to the sweet darkness.

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Of the mixed blood animals, six are half-breeds and one a quarter-breed buffalo.

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"De Ingins kill our 'effer," he lamented, in the mongrel speech of the quarter-breed.

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The quarter-breed's tone was one of glad surprise, as he dismounted and advanced, hat in hand.

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