a. [f. BREED + -Y1.] Breeding readily; prolific. Hence Breediness.
1753. Dial. betw. Swift & Prior, 24. Our early Marriages, the Breedyness of our People.
1824. J. Wilson, in Blackw. Mag., XII. 55. Blockheads … are breedy, and double themselves every ten years.
1865. Cornh. Mag., II. 53. The life and habits of the ‘breedy creature’ [the oyster].
1883. St. James’s Gaz., 14 April, 6. Hares are not such breedy creatures as rabbits.
