from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun A person of mixed racial descent.
adjective Of mixed racial descent.
from The Century Dictionary.
noun A person of mixed European and Asiatic parentage; especially, in India, a person born of a native mother and a Portuguese or French father. See Eurasian.
noun By extension, any half-breed; especially, one born of a European parent and a native parent of different race in the country of the latter.
Born of mixed European and Asiatic or other native parentage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun One born of a European parent on the one side, and of a Hindu or Mohammedan on the other. Also adjective.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
adjective Describing someone of mixed racialdescent in a derogatory manner.
noun A derogatory name for a person of mixed racial descent
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun an offensive term for the offspring of parents of different races or cultures
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Examples
She sets up with a lesbian Polish plumber who is happy to say she has only come over for the money and will be bringing her 10 half-caste kids over as soon as she can, to claim benefits.
"All ready?" the captain asked the engineer, a Portuguese half-caste, whose head and shoulders protruded from the small hatch just for'ard of the cabin, and who wiped the sweat from his face with a bunch of greasy waste.
Shorty, the Japanese half-caste, clown that he was, dancing and grinning on the outskirts of the struggle, with a final grimace and hysterical giggle led the retreat across the poop and down the poop-ladder.
Stapler, of the recruiting ketch Merry; Darby Shryleton, planter from Tito-Ito; Peter Gee, a half-caste Chinese pearl-buyer who ranged from Ceylon to the Paumotus, and Alfred Deacon, a visitor who had stopped off from the last steamer.
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