Dictionary

breedy en · ADJ

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. Apt or ready to breed, produce; breeding readily; prolific
   • 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:
   • [...] 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:

Forms

Deriveds

breediness