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blood⋅y

  [bluhd-ee] adjective, blood⋅i⋅er, blood⋅i⋅est, verb, blood⋅ied, blood⋅y⋅ing, adverb
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–adjective
1. stained or covered with blood: a bloody handkerchief.
2. bleeding: a bloody nose.
3. characterized by bloodshed: bloody battle; a bloody rule.
4. inclined to bloodshed; bloodthirsty: a bloody dictator.
5. of, pertaining to, or resembling blood; containing or composed of blood: bloody tissue.
6. Slang. (used as an intensifier): a bloody shame; a bloody nuisance.
–verb (used with object)
7. to stain or smear with blood.
8. to cause to bleed, as by a blow or accident: to bloody someone's nose.
–adverb
9. Slang. (used as an intensifier): bloody awful; bloody wonderful.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME blody, OE blōdig. See blood, -y 1

Related forms:
blood⋅i⋅ly, adverb
blood⋅i⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1–3. sanguinary, ensanguined, gory. 4. murderous, homicidal; savage, brutal, ferocious; cruel, inhuman, ruthless.
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blood·y   (blŭd'ē)   
adj.   blood·i·er, blood·i·est
  1. Stained with blood.
  2. Of, characteristic of, or containing blood.
  3. Accompanied by or giving rise to bloodshed: a bloody fight.
  4. Bloodthirsty.
  5. Suggesting the color of blood; blood-red.
  6. Chiefly British Slang Used as an intensive: "Everyone wants to have a convict in his bloody family tree" (Robert Hughes).
adv.  Chiefly British Slang Used as an intensive: bloody well right.
tr.v.   blood·ied, blood·y·ing, blood·ies
  1. To stain, spot, or color with or as if with blood.
  2. To make bleed, as by injuring or wounding: The troops were bloodied in the skirmish.
blood'i·ly adv., blood'i·ness n.
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Bloody

Blood"y\, a. [AS. bl[=o]dig.]

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; esp., marked by great slaughter or cruelty; as, a bloody battle.

5. Infamous; contemptible; -- variously used for mere emphasis or as a low epithet. [Vulgar] --Thackeray.

Bloody

Blood"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bloodied; p. pr. & vb. n. Bloodying.] To stain with blood. --Overbury.
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Language Translation for : bloody
Spanish: ensangrentado,
German: blutbefleckt,
Japanese: 血まみれの
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bloody 
O.E. blodig, adj. from blod (see blood). It has been a British intens. swear word since at least 1676. Weekley relates it to the purely intensive use of the cognate Du. bloed, Ger. blut). But perhaps connected with bloods in the slang sense of "rowdy young aristocrats" (see blood) via expressions such as bloody drunk "as drunk as a blood." Partridge reports that it was "respectable" before c.1750, and it was used by Fielding and Swift, but heavily tabooed c.1750-c.1920, perhaps from imagined association with menstruation; Johnson calls it "very vulgar," and OED first edition writes of it, "now constantly in the mouths of the lowest classes, but by respectable people considered 'a horrid word', on par with obscene or profane language." Shaw shocked theatergoers when he put it in the mouth of Eliza Doolittle in "Pygmalion" (1914), and for a time the word was known euphemistically as "the Shavian adjective." It was avoided in print as late as 1936. Bloody Mary, the drink, is from 1956, named for Mary Tudor, queen of England 1553-58, who earned her epithet for vigorous prosecution of Protestants. The drink earned its, apparently, simply for being red from tomato juice. Bloody Sunday, Jan. 30, 1972, when 13 civilians were killed by British troops at protest in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: bloody
Pronunciation: 'bl&d-E
Function: adjective
Inflected Forms: blood·i·er;-est
1 a : containing ormade up of blood b : of or contained in the blood
2 a : smeared or stained with blood b : dripping blood : BLEEDING bloody nose> —blood·i·ly /'bl&d-&l-E/ adverb —blood·i·ness /'bl&d-E-n&s/ noun
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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bloody blood·y (blŭd'ē)
adj. blood·i·er, blood·i·est

  1. Stained with blood.
  2. Of, characteristic of, or containing blood.
  3. Suggesting the color of blood; blood-red.
v. blood·ied, blood·y·ing, blood·ies
  1. To stain, spot, or color with or as if with blood.
  2. To make bleed, as by injuring or wounding.

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