blood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: blŭd
ipa: /blʌd/
enpr: blo͝od
ipa: /blʊd/
note: Dublin
ipa: /blʊd/
homophone: blud
rhymes: -ʌd
rhymes: -ʊd
Forms: form: bloods
form: bloud
form: bloode
form: bl00d
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-?
Proto-Germanic *blōþą
Proto-West Germanic *blōd
Old English blōd
Middle English blood
English blood
From Middle English blood, from Old English blōd, from Proto-West Germanic *blōd, from Proto-Germanic *blōþą, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- ("to swell") + -ó- (thematic vowel) + -to (nominalizer), i.e. "that which bursts out".
Cognate with Scots blude, bluid (“blood”), North Frisian blud, blödj, Blör (“blood”), Saterland Frisian Bloud (“blood”), West Frisian bloed (“blood”), Cimbrian pluat, pluut (“blood”), Dutch bloed (“blood”), German Blut (“blood”), German Low German Blood, Bloot (“blood”), Luxembourgish Blutt (“blood”), Vilamovian błüt (“blood”), Yiddish בלוט (blut, “blood”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish blod (“blood”), Faroese and Icelandic blóð (“blood”), Crimean Gothic plut (“blood”), Gothic 𐌱𐌻𐍉𐌸 (blōþ, “blood”).
Senses: examples: text: Some insects are known for consuming blood.
text: Blood started to spurt out of his hand due to the wound.
text: It cannot be denied it [the chameleon] is (if not the moſt of any) a very abſtemious animall, and ſuch as by reaſon of its frigidity, paucity of bloud, and latitancy in the winter (about which time the obſervations are often made) will long ſubſist without a viſible ſuſtentation.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, “Of the Cameleon”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 133:
text: The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.
ref: 1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings:
text: An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.
ref: 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):
glosses: A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.
examples: text: a friend of our own blood
ref: 1690, Edmund Waller, The Maid's Tragedy Altered:
text: to share the blood of Saxon royalty
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
text: TASHA: The captain wants those two taken into custody. // KORRIS: Do not let them take us, Worf. Help us. // KONMEL: Listen to the voice of your blood. You are not "of" these people.
ref: 1988 March 21, Heart of Glory (Star Trek: The Next Generation) (Science Fiction), Paramount Domestic Television, →OCLC:
synonyms: background
descent
heritage
stock
glosses: A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption. See blood relative, blood relation.
glosses: One of the four humours in the human body.
glosses: The endometrial lining as it is shed in menstruation; menstrual fluid.
examples: text: When I got Bilbo to their surgery the vet took Bilbo in for tests. […] His bloods showed nothing wrong at all.
ref: 2016, Steve Jamieson, Bilbo the Lifeguard Dog:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A blood test or blood sample.
examples: text: It is no tautology to call the blood of the grape red or purple, because the juice of that fruit was sometimes white and sometimes black or dark. The arterial blood of our bodies is red, but the venous is called "black blood."
ref: 1841, Benjamin Parsons, Anti-Bacchus, page 95:
text: Disbudding is merely a species of pruning, and should be done as soon as the lateral buds begin to develop on the cane. It diverts the flow of the plant's blood from many buds into one or a few, thus increasing the size of the flower, [...]
ref: 1901, Levi Leslie Lamborn, American Carnation Culture, fourth edition, page 57:
text: Look at a leaf. On it are many little raised lines which reach out to all parts of the leaf and back to the stem and twig. These are "veins," full of the tree's blood. It is white and looks very much like water; [...]
ref: 1916, John Gordon Dorrance, The Story of the Forest, page 44:
glosses: The sap or juice which flows in or from plants.
examples: text: He washed[…]his clothes in the blood of grapes.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 49:11:
glosses: The juice of anything, especially if red.
examples: text: When thou perceive his blood inclined to mirth
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
text: Hath Cassius liu'd / To be but Mirth and Laughter to his Brutus, / When greefe and blood ill temper'd, vexeth him?
ref: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
text: There was some little undefinable coolness between old General Chattesworth and Devereux. He admired the young fellow, and he liked good blood in his corps, but somehow he was glad when he thought he was likely to go. When old Bligh, of the Magazine, commended the handsome young dog's good looks, the general would grow grave all at once […]
ref: 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Church-yard. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Temper of mind; disposition; mood
examples: text: Seest thou not[…]how giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty?
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
text: […] it was the morning costume of a dandy or blood of those days […]
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 3, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: fop
word: popinjay
word: barbermonger
word: beau
word: blade
word: blood
word: buck
word: carpet knight
word: cockscomb
word: dandy
word: dike
word: dood
word: dude
word: dudelet
word: exquisite
word: fashionable
word: fast man
word: fine gentleman
word: fop
word: foretop
word: fribble
word: gallant
word: go
word: jack-a-dandy
word: Jemmy-Jessamy
word: jetter
word: macaroni
word: masher
word: metrosexual
word: mignon
word: petit maître
word: popinjay
word: pretty boy
word: prig
word: puss-gentleman
word: smart
word: spark
word: spiff
word: swell
word: tippy
word: toff
glosses: A lively, showy man; a rake; a dandy.
glosses: A blood horse, one of good pedigree.
examples: text: They came looking for blood.
text: Our Father’s Death
Would fill up all the Guilt of Civil War,
And cloſe the Scene of Blood.
ref: 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 1:
text: Under Henry III. Amboise ceased to be a slaughter-house, as in the preceding reign, but it remained a sort of state prison. It is related that Anne d'Este of Ferrara, wife of Duc de Guise, while assisting once at a series of executions out of the windows of the castle with Catherine de Medicis, suddenly overcome by the horror of the spectacle, turned away, exclaiming passionately, "Ah Madame! how all this blood calls out for blood! what vengeance is being prepared! May God have pity on your sons and on mine!"
ref: 1873, The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church, page 31:
text: He watched out for the men in his unit, for the one woman who had saved them so many years ago when they were still raw teens out for blood and revenge on the world, and he watched out for anyone else they stumbled across in their lives that needed protection.
ref: 2007, Christine Feehan, Deadly Game, Penguin, →ISBN, page 55:
text: The standard assessment suggests that as the munera became purely a spectacle, they became more murderous because the public wanted to see blood. That the people of Rome were able to indulge this degenerate desire was merely due to the degraded status of the professional gladiator.
ref: 2010, Alison Futrell, Blood in the Arena: The Spectacle of Roman Power, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 169:
glosses: Bloodshed.
qualifier: especially African-American Vernacular
glosses: A friend or acquaintance, especially one who is black and male.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Blood (“member of a certain gang”).
examples: text: Blood I swear she just gave man extra chicken? Two fat pieces of chicken.
ref: 2017, Joseph Barnes Phillips, Big Foot ...and Tiny Little Heartstrings:
glosses: Alternative form of blud (“Informal address to a male.”).
Hyponyms: lifeblood
Derived terms: ablood
arterial blood gas
bad blood
baptism of blood
beblood
bleed
blood accusation
blood alley
blood and ashes
blood and guts
blood-and-guts
blood-and-gutsy
blood and ouns
Blood and Sand
blood and soil
blood and thunder
blood atonement
blood avenger
blood bank
blood baptism
blood bath
bloodbath
blood bee
bloodberry
blood bin
bloodbird
blood blister
blood-boiling
blood bond
blood boosting
bloodborne
blood boy
blood-brain barrier
blood brother
blood cancer
blood-cell
blood cell
blood-chilling
blood chit
blood choke
blood circle
blood circulation time
blood clam
blood clot
blood cockle
blood corpuscle
blood count
blood crystal
blood curd
bloodcurdler
bloodcurdling
blood-curdling
blood diamond
blood doll
blood donation
blood donor
blood draw
blood drive
blood eagle
blooden
blooder
bloodfed
bloodfest
blood feud
blood film
bloodfin
blood flow
bloodflower
blood fluke
blood for the blood god
blood from a stone
blood from a turnip
Bloodgate
blood group
bloodguilt
bloodguilty
bloodhead
bloodheat
blood horse
bloodhound
blood-house
bloodhouse
bloodhungry
blood in one's eye
blood in the water
bloodish
blood is thicker than water
blood jelly
blood kind
blood knot
bloodlands
bloodleaf
bloodless
bloodlet
bloodletter
blood-letting
bloodletting
blood libel
bloodlike
blood lily
blood lime
bloodline
bloodlink
blood loss
blood lust
bloodlust
bloodmage
blood mage
bloodmeal
bloodmobile
blood money
bloodmonger
blood moon
bloodmouth
blood nose
bloodnut
blood orange
blood partridge
blood pheasant
blood pink
blood plasma
bloodplay
blood poisoning
blood pressure
blood product
bloodproof
blood pudding
blood quantum
blood rain
blood-red
blood red
blood-red fancy
blood relation
blood relationship
blood relative
blood replacement
bloodroot
blood royal
blood rule
blood sample
blood sausage
bloodscape
blood serum
bloodshed
bloodshedder
bloodshedding
bloodshot
bloodshotting
blood sibling
bloodsicle
blood sister
blood smear
blood snake
blood-soaked
bloodsoaked
bloodsome
blood spavin
blood sport
bloodsport
bloodspot
bloodspotted
bloodstain
bloodstained
blood-stained
blood-stained cockatoo
bloodstaining
bloodstick
bloodstock
bloodstone
bloodstream
bloodstroke
blood sub
blood substitution
blood-sucker
bloodsucker
blood-sucking
bloodsucking
blood sugar
blood supply
blood sweat
blood tax
blood-tax
blood test
blood thinner
bloodthirst
bloodthirster
bloodthirsting
bloodthirsty
blood-thirsty
blood tick
blood tie
blood tofu
blood transfusion
blood tree
blood type
blood typing
blood vessel
blood volume
blood wings
blood-wit
blood-wite
bloodwood
bloodwork
blood work
blood worm
bloodwort
blood wurst
bloody
bloody-handed
bloody mary
bloody-minded
blue blood
blue-blood
Bombay blood
bucket of blood
burst a blood vessel
by blood
cerebral blood flow
cold blood
cold-blooded
complete blood count
corruption of blood
cryoblood
Dane's blood
diastolic blood pressure
dragon's blood
draw blood
fasting blood sugar
fecal occult blood
first blood
flesh and blood
fresh blood
full-blood
fullblood
full blood count
get blood from a stone
get blood from a turnip
get blood out of a stone
get blood out of a turnip
give blood
gutterblood
half blood
half-blood
have blood on one's hands
have someone's blood
have someone's blood on one's head
heart-blood
heart's blood
high blood
high blood pressure
hot-blooded
I have high blood pressure
I have low blood pressure
ill blood
in blood
in cold blood
in someone's blood
let blood
lifeblood
make someone's blood boil
make someone's blood run cold
make the blood run cold
mixblood
mixed-blood
moonblood
my blood type is ...
Nelson's blood
new blood
nonblood
noseblood
of a blood
one's blood is up
one's blood runs cold
out for blood
oxblood
pigeon-blood
pigeon's blood
plead the blood of Jesus
Precious Blood
pureblood
quantum of Indian blood
red-blood
red blood cell
red blood cell cast
rich for one's blood
rush of blood
'sblood
self-blood
shed blood
smell blood
smell blood in the water
someone's blood runs cold
spill blood
spit blood
squeeze blood from a turnip
squeeze blood out of a turnip
stir someone's blood
sweat blood
systolic blood pressure
taste blood
tiger blood
too rich for one's blood
warm-blooded
washed in the blood
white blood
white blood cell
white blood corpuscle
white coat high blood pressure
whole blood
whole-blood coagulation time
worthiest of blood
young blood
youngblood
Related terms: bleed
bless
blessing
bloody mary
coagulation
sanguinary
sanguine
hemato-