Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Stained with blood.
- adjective Of, characteristic of, or containing blood.
- adjective Accompanied by or giving rise to bloodshed.
- adjective Bloodthirsty.
- adjective Suggesting the color of blood; blood-red.
- adjective Chiefly British Slang Used as an intensive.
- adverb Chiefly British Slang Used as an intensive.
- transitive verb To stain, spot, or color with or as if with blood.
- transitive verb To make bleed, as by injuring or wounding.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To stain with blood.
- Very; exceedingly; desperately: as, “bloody drunk,”
- Of, of the nature of, or pertaining to blood; containing or composed of blood: as, a bloody stream; “bloody drops,”
- Existing in the blood.
- Stained with blood; exhibiting signs or traces of blood: as, a bloody knife.
- Of the color of blood; blood-red.
- Cruel; murderous; given to the shedding of blood, or having a cruel, savage disposition.
- Attended with or committing bloodshed; marked by cruelty: as, a bloody battle.
- Concerned with or portending bloodshed; sanguinary.
- In low language: Excessive; atrocious; heinous: as, he's a bloody fool, or a bloody rascal.
- Used as an intensive expletive, especially in negative expressions: as, there wasn't a bloody soul there.
- Same as
badge of Ulster . Seebadge .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To stain with blood.
- adjective Containing or resembling blood; of the nature of blood.
- adjective Smeared or stained with blood.
- adjective Given, or tending, to the shedding of blood; having a cruel, savage disposition; murderous; cruel.
- adjective Attended with, or involving, bloodshed; sanguinary; esp., marked by great slaughter or cruelty.
- adjective Vulgar Infamous; contemptible; -- variously used for mere emphasis or as a low epithet.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Covered in
blood . - adjective Characterised by
bloodshed . - adjective Australia, New Zealand, UK, colloquial, mildly vulgar, not comparable Used as an intensifier.
- adverb Australia, New Zealand, UK, mildly vulgar Used to intensify what follows this adverb.
- verb To draw blood from one's opponent in a fight.
- verb To demonstrably harm the cause of an opponent.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having or covered with or accompanied by blood
- adjective informal intensifiers
- verb cover with blood
- adverb extremely
Etymologies
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Examples
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The phrase "bloody brilliant" seeped from his lips.
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He also said coalition operations had averted what he called "bloody massacre" of Benghazi residents by Gadhafi loyalists.
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He also said coalition operations had averted what he called "bloody massacre" of Benghazi residents by Gadhafi loyalists.
Anti-Aircraft Fire Erupts Over Tripoli as More Nations Enforce No-Fly Zone 2011
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He said coalition operations averted what he called "bloody massacre" of residents in the rebels' eastern stronghold of Benghazi.
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He said coalition operations averted what he called "bloody massacre" of residents in the rebels' eastern stronghold of Benghazi.
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He also said coalition operations had averted what he called "bloody massacre" of Benghazi residents by Gadhafi loyalists.
Anti-Aircraft Fire Erupts Over Tripoli as More Nations Enforce No-Fly Zone 2011
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He said coalition operations averted what he called "bloody massacre" of residents in the rebels' eastern stronghold of Benghazi.
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In what they described as a bloody weekend in Transkei, at least five people died from gunshot wounds in other incidents.
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In the late 1960's, he would sometimes place what he referred to as "bloody bundles"-animal parts wrapped in white cloth-on the sidewalks of Rio and record the responses of passerby on videotape and with photographs.
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The country's embassy in Malaysia condemned what it called a "bloody attack on our beloved citizens" in a faxed statement.
brtom commented on the word bloody
"Did you see that bloody chimneysweep near shove my eye out with his brush?"
Joyce, Ulysses, 12
January 13, 2007
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word bloody
aka: the great Australian adjective.
July 17, 2009
EditorMark commented on the word bloody
"Bloody" has long been thought of as a profanity, falsely linked in the 1700s to "Christ's blood." It began as (and is becoming) a harmless intensive.
September 12, 2011