bloody

[Blood·y]

Something that's bloody is stained or covered with blood, like a bloody nose. In British slang, bloody means something like “very.” That’s bloody brilliant!

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Containing or resembling blood; of the nature of blood; as, bloody excretions; bloody sweat.

Verb
cover with blood; "bloody your hands"

Adjective
having or covered with or accompanied by blood; "a bloody nose"; "your scarf is all bloody"; "the effects will be violent and probably bloody"; "a bloody fight"

Adverb
extremely; "you are bloody right"; "Why are you so all-fired aggressive?"


a.
Containing or resembling blood; of the nature of blood; as, bloody excretions; bloody sweat.

a.
Smeared or stained with blood; as, bloody hands; a bloody handkerchief.

a.
Given, or tending, to the shedding of blood; having a cruel, savage disposition; murderous; cruel.

a.
Attended with, or involving, bloodshed; sanguinary; esp., marked by great slaughter or cruelty; as, a bloody battle.

a.
Infamous; contemptible; -- variously used for mere emphasis or as a low epithet.

v. t.
To stain with blood.


Bloody

Blood"y , a. [AS. bldig.] 1. Containing or resembling blood; of the nature of blood; as, bloody excretions; bloody sweat. 2. Smeared or stained with blood; as, bloody hands; a bloody handkerchief. 3. Given, or tending, to the shedding of blood; having a cruel, savage disposition; murderous; cruel.
Some bloody passion shakes your very frame.
4. Attended with, or involving, bloodshed; sanguinary; esp., marked by great slaughter or cruelty; as, a bloody battle. 5. Infamous; contemptible; -- variously used for mere emphasis or as a low epithet. [Vulgar] Thackeray.

Bloody

Blood"y, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bloodied ; p. pr. & vb. n. Bloodying.] To stain with blood. Overbury.

Containing or resembling blood; of the nature of blood; as, bloody excretions; bloody sweat.

To stain with blood.

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Usage Examples

Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.

Playing and singing at the same time is pretty cool, but sometimes it's difficult to know when you can just really let go a bit because you've got to get back to bloody microphone and sing some stuff.

Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth let a people loving freedom come to growth.

All I want is a gentleman. I'm sick to bloody death of bastards.

It's very clear that there's a lot of double standards going on. Should there be a 30mph speed limit? Of course there bloody should. And certainly with kids and school food, kids need to be nannied for sure. So give them a bloody good meal at school.

Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat.

Everyone comes up to me saying, 'Cooee, Julie! Hello!' as if I know them. Of course I don't bloody know them. Am I flummoxed by it? Sometimes. I think, 'Ooh, love, go easy.' For a time, I did feel this pressure that I had to be funny, but it passes.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security.

Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.

Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.

It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.

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