full-blooded

English

Alternative forms

• fullblooded

Adjective

full-blooded (not comparable)

1. Of purebred ancestry.
   • 2023 May 16, Maud Newton, “Blending Native History and Myth Into Heartfelt Memoir”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 18 June 2023:

     Blood quantum rules — which began as a colonizer practice designed to limit tribal citizenship but were later adopted by some Native peoples as a means of preserving cultural identity — require the tribe’s members to be at least one-eighth S’Klallam and to have at least one full-blooded S’Klallam ancestor.

2. Having a florid or ruddy complexion.
3. Hearty or lusty.
   • 2011 February 5, Chris Whyatt, “Wolverhampton 2 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC‎^[2]:

     And when it was quickly returned to Jarvis, with United failing to mark properly, his clean cross was met with a full-blooded header by former Colchester defender Elokobi, who had to stretch his neck back to add power.

Synonyms

• pedigree
• pedigreed
• purebred
• pure-breed
• thoroughbred

Derived terms

• full-bloodedness

Translations

of purebred ancestry

• Bulgarian: чистокръвен (bg) (čistokrǎven)
• Catalan: de soca-rel (ca)
• Danish: fuldblods
• Finnish: jalosukuinen (fi)
• German: vollblütig, Vollblut- (de) (in compounds), reinrassig (de), Rasse- (in compounds)
• Italian: purosangue (it)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fullblods

  Nynorsk: fullblods

• Polish: czystej krwi, pełnokrwisty
• Romanian: pursânge (ro)
• Spanish: de pura cepa