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adjective
discolored, as by bruising; exhibiting ecchymosis: a black-and-blue mark on my knee.
Origin:
1300–50; Middle English
1300–50; Middle English
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Black-and-blue
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World English Dictionary
| black-and-blue | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | (of the skin) discoloured, as from a bruise |
| 2. | feeling pain or soreness, as from a beating |
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