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Definition of Blood-and-guts
1. Adjective. Marked by great zeal or violence. "Blood-and-guts football"
Definition of Blood-and-guts
1. Adjective. Performed with vigor, ferocity, passion, or violence (especially in competition). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blood-and-guts
Literary usage of Blood-and-guts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by James George Frazer (1900)
"In laying the boughs on the blood and guts the man told the deer not to grieve
for the death of their friend and not to take it ill that he had left some of ..."
2. Journal of a Trapper: Or, Nine Years in the Rocky Mountains, 1834-1843 by Osborne Russell, Lem A. York (1921)
"... to do it without danger to themselves, but, said he, "if you follow us or
molest us we will besmear the ground with blood and guts of Crow Indians, ..."
3. The Life and Works of John Arbuthnot, M.D.: Fellow of the Royal College of by George Atherton Aitken, John Arbuthnot (1892)
"... and pride eats out the heart, blood, and guts of poverty ; and laziness will
not stir an inch to relievo either : that these three fatal sisters may not ..."
4. Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran/Contra Affair by Lee H. Hamilton, Daniel K. Inouye (1995)
"On November 7, 1983, John Hull, Indiana native, ranch owner in Costa Rica, and
Contra supporter, wrote that "BG," or "blood and guts," as North was known, ..."
5. English and Scottish Ballads by Francis James Child (1866)
"... He could not enter with hacks and cuts, Which vext the knight to the very
hearts blood and guts. All the trees in the wood did shake, Stars did tremble, ..."
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