breeding

Meanings

Noun

• Propagation of offspring through sexual reproduction.
• The act of insemination by natural or artificial means.
• The act of copulation in animals.
• The good manners regarded as characteristic of the aristocracy and conferred by heredity.
• Nurture; education; formation of manners.
• Descent; pedigree; extraction.
• Ejaculation inside the rectum during bareback anal sex.

Adjective

• Of, relating to or used for breeding.

Verb

• Present participle of breed

Origin

• From Middle English breedyng, bredynge, equivalent to breed + -ing.
• From Middle English bredyng, bredynge, from Old English *brēdende, from Proto-Germanic *brōdijandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *brōdijaną, equivalent to breed + -ing.