full-blood

English

Noun

full-blood (plural full-bloods)

  1. A pure-bred animal. [from 18th c.]
  2. (Australia, now offensive) An Aboriginal person of unmixed ancestry. [from 19th c.]
    • 1941, Pearl Gibbs, radio broadcast, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 38:
      There are only 800 full-bloods now in New South Wales due to the maladministration of previous governments.
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