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half-English

British  

adjective

  1. having partial English citizenship through the nationality of one parent

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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They saw some clips of me online and realised I was half-English.

From BBC Nov. 27, 2025

Violette Szabo, a half-French, half-English widow and mother, joined Britain’s Special Operations Executive and was trained as a saboteur and spy before parachuting into France to fight with the resistance.

From Washington Post Mar. 2, 2022

It’s a half-English, half-Hindi outlier on a soundtrack otherwise populated by Bruce Springsteen songs — the closest Bruce analog would be a mix of “Drive All Night,” “Secret Garden” and something from Bollywood.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 5, 2019

For example, my Australian wife is currently in A&E while our half-English half-Australian son has a wound in his forehead stitched.

From The Guardian Sep. 4, 2019

Grandma must have told me about a million unsolicited half-English, half-Fante stories about everything from our family to mythology.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

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