Lexic.us

Definition of Bloody

1. Verb. Cover with blood. "Bloody your hands"

2. Adjective. Having or covered with or accompanied by blood. "A bloody fight"

3. Adverb. Extremely. "Why are you so all-fired aggressive?"

4. Adjective. Informal intensifiers. "You flaming idiot"

Definition of Bloody

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

2. v. t. To stain with blood.

Definition of Bloody

1. Adjective. Covered in blood. ¹

2. Adjective. Characterised by bloodshed. ¹

3. Adjective. (AU NZ UK colloquial mildly vulgar not comparable) ''Used as an intensifier.'' ¹

4. Adverb. (AU NZ British mildly vulgar) Used to intensify what follows this adverb. ¹

5. Verb. To draw blood from one's opponent in a fight. ¹

6. Verb. To demonstrably harm the cause of an opponent. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bloody

1. stained with blood [adj BLOODIER, BLOODIEST] / to make bloody [v BLOODIED, BLOODYING, BLOODIES] - See also: bloody

Medical Definition of Bloody

1. 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." (Shak) 4. Attended with, or involving, bloodshed; sanguinary; especially, marked by great slaughter or cruelty; as, a bloody battle. 5. Infamous; contemptible; variously used for mere emphasis or as a low epithet. Origin: AS. Bldig. To stain with blood. Origin: Bloodied; Bloodying. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bloody

bloodthirsty bloodulf bloodwit bloodwite bloodwites bloodwits bloodwood bloodwood tree bloodwoods bloodwork

bloodworm bloodworms bloodwort bloodwort family bloodworts bloody (current term) bloody(a) bloody-minded bloody-mindedness bloody-warrior

bloody Nora bloody flux bloody hand bloody hell bloody nose bloody noses bloody shame bloody shirt bloody sweat

Literary usage of Bloody

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... in which he speaks of him as "the bloody sheep-bite of London", ... when they mean anything, he finds the bloody wolf transformed . . . into something ..."

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