breasted
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
breasted (not comparable)
- Having a breast, or breasts.
- 2000, Thomas A. Easton, Stones of Memory, page 11:
- 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.
- (in combination) Having a specified kind of breast or covering.
- 1884, Charles Louis Flint, The American Farmer, page 480:
- 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.
Derived terms[edit]
- bar-breasted honeyeater
- bare-breasted
- big-breasted
- blue-breasted fairywren
- buff-breasted sandpiper
- chestnut-breasted mannikin
- chicken-breasted
- cinnamon-breasted tit
- double-breasted
- green-breasted pitta
- open-breasted
- pigeon-breasted
- red-breasted flycatcher
- red-breasted goose
- red-breasted merganser
- red-breasted sapsucker
- rose-breasted grosbeak
- rufous-breasted sparrowhawk
- scaly-breasted lorikeet
- single-breasted
- slaty-breasted tinamou
- spot-breasted lapwing
- stripe-breasted tit
- tawny-breasted tinamou
- white-breasted nuthatch
- white-breasted sea eagle
- white-breasted waterhen
- yellow-breasted bunting
- yellow-breasted chat
Verb[edit]
breasted
- simple past and past participle of breast