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English
Etymology
From breed + bate.
Noun
breedbate (plural breedbates)
- (obsolete, rare) Someone who causess quarrels; a quarreler
c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :No telltale nor no breedbate.
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