breasted en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈbɹɛstɪd/
- /ˈbɹɛstəd/
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *breustą Proto-West Germanic *breust Old English brēost Middle English brest English breast English -ed English breasted From breast + -ed.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Having a breast, or breasts.
He tried to imagine them sleekened and breasted, not just the daughters of peasants such as he had known when he was young and a peasant himself but succubi of the sort he had once resisted in the night, and he felt nothing.
2000, Thomas A. Easton, Stones of Memory, page 11:
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(in-compounds, not-comparable) Having a specified kind of breast or covering.
The original wild varieties of Game fowl are three: the Black-breasted Red, with fawn-breasted partridge hens; the Brown-breasted Reds, with dark legs and dark-brown hens, and the Red-breasted Ginger Reds, with yellow legs, and the hens of a light partridge color.
1884, Charles Louis Flint, The American Farmer, page 480:
Deriveds
big-breasted · scaly-breasted lorikeet · white-breasted waterhen · bay-breasted warbler · chestnut-breasted mountain finch · chestnut-breasted mannikin · spot-breasted lapwing · red-breasted snipe · yellow-breasted chat · rose-breasted grosbeak · pigeon-breasted · yellow-breasted greenfinch · stripe-breasted tit · red-breasted flycatcher · black-breasted leaf turtle · cinnamon-breasted tit · red-breasted merganser · tawny-breasted tinamou · white-breasted hawk · rufous-breasted sparrowhawk · red-breasted sapsucker · lilac-breasted roller · chestnut-breasted nigrita · blue-breasted fairywren · bare-breasted · yellow-breasted bunting · full-breasted · open-breasted · single-breasted · black-breasted quail · rose-breasted cockatoo · golden-breasted fulvetta · plain-breasted hawk · white-breasted nuthatch · white-breasted sea eagle · gold-breasted trumpeter · slaty-breasted tinamou · red-breasted goose · chicken-breasted · buff-breasted sandpiper · bar-breasted honeyeater · green-breasted pitta · double-breasted