• Full-blood

    Full definition of full-blood

    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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