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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

HOME-BRED

HOME-BRED Home "-bred `, a.

1. Bred at home; domestic; not foreign. " Home-bred mischief. " Milton. Benignity and home-bred sense. Wordsworth.

2. Not polished; rude; uncultivated. Only to me home-bred youths belong. Dryden.

New American Oxford Dictionary

home-bred

home-bred ▶adjective bred or raised at home. • lacking in worldly experience; unsophisticated.

Oxford Dictionary

home-bred

home-bred ▶adjective bred or raised at home. • lacking in worldly experience; unsophisticated.

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