half-breed

• halfbreed

From half- +‎ breed.

half-breed (plural half-breeds)

1. (dated, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A person of mixed racial parentage or ancestry, especially one of mixed white and American Indian parentage (metis, métis, Metis, Métis; mestizo).
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World , London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     It was at Para also that we engaged Gomez and Manuel, two half-breeds from up the river, just come down with a cargo of redwood.

   • 1921, Watson Kirkconnell, “Military Annals of Victoria”, in Victoria County Centennial History‎, Lindsay, Ontario: Watchman-Warder Press, →OCLC, page 186:

     The half-breeds or Metis along the Saskatchewan River asked that they be given a legal title to the land which they occupied. […] The half-breeds found that constitutional agitation was hopeless and began open hostilities.

   • 1973 March 4, John Kifner, “The Ghosts Dance Once Again at Wounded Knee”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     Some oppose A.I.M. leaders as outsiders; some resent the leadership of Mr. Wilson; full‐blooded Indians resent halfbreeds; the have‐nots resent those with relative wealth.

2. A hybrid animal or plant.

• breed (short form for half-breed)

half-breed

1. (of a person, dated, derogatory, offensive) having dual heritage; having mixed racial parentage or ancestry
2. (of an animal or plant) Hybridized; having one purebred parent; descended from parents of different breeds or with different traits