bloody
Part of speech: adj
adv
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English blody, blodi, from Old English blōdiġ, blōdeġ (“bloody”), from Proto-West Germanic *blōdag, from Proto-Germanic *blōþagaz (“bloody”), equivalent to blood + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian bläidich, blöidig, blouderch (“bloody”), West Frisian bloedich (“bloody”), Dutch bloedig (“bloody”), German Low German blödig (“bloody”), German blutig (“bloody”), Danish blodig (“bloody”), Swedish blodig (“bloody”), Faroese blóðigur (“bloody”), Icelandic blóðugur (“bloody”). See Wikipedia for thoughts on sense evolution.
Base: blood
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: bloodier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: bloodiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: bloudy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: bl**dy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: more bloody
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most bloody
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: bloudy
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: bl**dy
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: bloodies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bloodying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bloodied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bloodied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bloudy
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: bl**dy
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Covered in blood.
pos: adj
examples: All that remained of his right hand after the accident was a bloody stump.
And, as she fled, her mantle she did fall, / Which Lion vile with bloody mouth did stain.
O Antony! Begge not your death of vs: / Though now we muſt appeare bloody and cruell, / As by our hands, and this our preſent Acte / You ſee we do: Yet ſee you but our hands, / And this, the bleeding buſineſſe they haue done:
gloss: Characterised by bloodshed.
pos: adj
examples: There have been bloody battles between the two tribes.
Some bloody paſſion ſhakes your very Frame:
I had therefore been, until now, out of the way of the bloody scenes that often occurred on the plantation.
The story of Elizabeth Bathory is one of the bloodiest in history.
These disaffected diplomats said they would like to see the US threaten future arms sales to Israel to help curtail the bloody fighting, but the proposed F-15 and precision-guided munitions sales indicate that the administration is not planning to restrict military assistance any time soon.
gloss: Used as an intensifier.
pos: adj
tags: Commonwealth
Hawaii
Ireland
UK
informal
mildly
vulgar
examples: Traffic in central London was a bloody mess this morning.
There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today.
Try to keep those bloody women's bloody heads on their bloody shoulders by somehow helping them make this whole mad impossible scheme actually work.
You are not to go asking anyone about who killed that bloody dog.
“You bloody fool, I could′ve stabbed you in the heart,” David said in mock anger, and then smiled widely.
With 109km of fixed infrastructure, of which only 50% is utilised, Perry's message is simple: "put more bloody trains on it!"
gloss: Badly behaved; unpleasant; beastly.
pos: adj
tags: dated
examples: Come to apologize to Charles. I was bloody to him and he's my guest. He's my guest and my only friend and I was bloody to him.
gloss: Used to express anger, annoyance, or shock, or for emphasis.
pos: adv
tags: Australia
India
Ireland
New-Zealand
Newfoundland
South-Africa
UK
informal
mildly
vulgar
examples: Walk! Not bloody likely. [Sensation]. I am going in a taxi. [She goes out].
"Dice are no bloody good," David said.
gloss: To stain with blood.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The butcher often bloodied his apron in the course of his work.
gloss: To draw blood from (one's opponent) in a fight.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To demonstrably harm (the cause of an opponent).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: bebloody
bloodily
bloodiness
bloody back
Bloody Caesar
Bloody Code
bloody dock
bloody 'ell
bloody flux
bloody-handed
bloody-handedly
bloody-handedness
bloody heck
bloody hell
bloodyish
bloody mary
Bloody Mary
bloody-minded
bloody-mindedly
bloody-mindedness
bloody Nora
bloody nose
bloody-nosed beetle
bloody noun
bloody oath
bloody show
bloody sweat
bloody up
bloody-warrior
bloody warrior
bloody William
give someone a bloody nose
mucobloody
my bloody oath
nonbloody
raw-head and bloody-bones
scream bloody murder
unbloody
wave the bloody shirt
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