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Home-bred   Listen
adjective
Home-bred  adj.  
1.
Bred at home; domestic; not foreign. " Home-bred mischief." "Benignity and home-bred sense."
2.
Not polished; rude; uncultivated. "Only to me home-bred youths belong."





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"Home-bred" Quotes from Famous Books



... his university career had ended rather abruptly. Honest Tusher, his governor, had found my young gentleman quite ungovernable. My lord worried his life away with tricks; and broke out, as home-bred lads will, into a hundred youthful extravagances, so that Dr. Bentley, the new master of Trinity, thought fit to write to the Viscountess Castlewood, my lord's mother, and beg her to remove the young nobleman from a college where he declined to learn, and where he only did harm by his riotous ...
— The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. • W. M. Thackeray


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