bloody
adjective
[ ˈblʌdi ]
• covered, smeared, or running with blood.
• "his bloody hands"
Similar:
bleeding,
shedding blood,
emitting blood,
raw,
gaping,
bloodstained,
blood-soaked,
blood-spattered,
gory,
sanguinary,
• involving or characterized by bloodshed or cruelty.
• "a bloody coup"
Similar:
involving bloodshed,
gory,
bloodthirsty,
vicious,
cruel,
ferocious,
savage,
fierce,
brutal,
murderous,
sanguinary,
bloody
verb
• cover or stain with blood.
• "he ended the fight with his face bloodied and battered"
Origin:
Old English blōdig (see blood, -y1).
bloody
adjective
• used to express anger, annoyance, or shock, or simply for emphasis.
• "you took your bloody time"
Similar:
blasted,
damn,
damned,
flaming,
precious,
confounded,
pestilential,
rotten,
wretched,
blessed,
flipping,
blinking,
blooming,
blimming,
bleeding,
effing,
chuffing,
goddam,
plurry,
bally,
ruddy,
deuced,
cursed,
accursed,
damnable,
fucking,
frigging,
pissing,
shitty,
sodding,
chickenshit,
pissant,
fecking,
• unpleasant or perverse.
• "don't be too bloody to poor Nigel"
Origin:
mid 17th century: from bloody1. The use of bloody to add emphasis to an expression is of uncertain origin, but is thought to have a connection with the ‘bloods’ (aristocratic rowdies) of the late 17th and early 18th centuries; hence the phrase bloody drunk (= as drunk as a blood) meant ‘very drunk indeed’. After the mid 18th century until quite recently bloody used as a swear word was regarded as unprintable, probably from the mistaken belief that it implied a blasphemous reference to the blood of Christ, or that the word was an alteration of ‘by Our Lady’; hence a widespread caution in using the term even in phrases, such as bloody battle, merely referring to bloodshed.
bloody hell
• used to express anger, annoyance, or shock.
• "bloody hell!—what was that?"
