Definitions for quarter-breed

quarter-breed quar·ter-breed

Spelling: [kwawr-ter-breed]
IPA: /ˈkwɔr tərˌbrid/

Quarter-Breed is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 347 anagrams from letters in quarter-breed (-abdeeeqrrrtu).

Definitions for quarter-breed

noun

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

Origin of quarter-breed

First recorded in 1820-30

Examples for quarter-breed

The quarter-breed glanced about him and unconsciously lowered his voice.

That quarter-breed Montour attended her, supported her, struggled on with her through all the horrors of this retreat.

And now a week had passed and she had seen neither Vil Holland nor the quarter-breed.

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

Thoughts of this wild, quarter-breed girl filled his brain as he sat solitary in his little office on the night of the pusky.

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

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

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

She had the rich tint of a quarter-breed, lightened in her case by a constant suffusion which gave her steady color.

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

Word Value for quarter-breed
Scrable

16

Words with friends

17

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