| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb bloody.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Base (bloodily) | 1. Involving a great bloodshed.[Wordnet]. 2. In a bloody manner; cruelly; with a disposition to shed blood.[Websters]. 3. In a stupid, idiotic, moronic, wooden or weird manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 4. In an insensate or fat manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 5. In a daft, inane or dumb manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 6. In an imbecilic, foolish or sheepish manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 7. In a common manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 8. In a damn or goddamn manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 9. In a truculent or brutish manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Infrequently used adverbial inflection of the adjective bloody.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (bloody) | 1. Cover with blood; "bloody your hands".[Wordnet]. 2. To stain with blood.[Websters]. 3. Base verb from the following inflections: bloodying, bloodied, bloodies, bloodier, bloodiers, bloodyingly and bloodiedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being damning.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "BLOODYING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Specialty Definition: bloody
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Literature | 1: The Bloody Eleventh. The old 11th Foot was so called from their having been several times nearly annihilated, as at Almanza, Fontenoy, Roucoux, Ostend, and Salamanca (1812), in capturing a French standard. Now called "The Devonshire Regiment." 2: "It was bloody hot walking to-day."- Swift: Journal de Stella, letter xxii. 3: Bloody (The). Otho II., Emperor of Germany. (955, 973-983.) 4: Bloody used as an expletive in such phrases as "A bloody fool," "Bloody drunk," etc., arose from associating folly and drunkenness, etc., with what are called "Bloods," or aristocratic rowdies. Similar to "Drunk as a lord." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| MultiLingual Slang | French (de merde), Italian (porca). (references) | ||
| Slang in 1811 | BLOODY. A favorite word used by the thieves in swearing, as bloody eyes, bloody rascal. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | ||
| Wikipedic | The word bloody is the adjectival form of blood but may also be used as a swear word or expletive attributive (intensifier). (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: bloody
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Battle of Bloody Marsh | The Battle of Bloody Marsh was a battle in the War of Jenkins' Ear in 1742. (references) | ||
| Battle of Bloody Run | The Battle of Bloody Run was fought during Pontiac's Rebellion on July 31, 1763. In an attempt to break Pontiac's siege of Fort Detroit, about 250 British troops attempted to make a surprise attack on Pontiac's encampment. Pontiac was ready and waiting, and defeated the British. The famous frontiersman Robert Rogers was one of the British commanders in the battle. (references) | ||
| Bloody April | During the First World War, the month of April 1917 was known as Bloody April by the Allied air forces. The Royal Flying Corps suffered losses so severe it came close to being annihilated. In April the Allies launched a joint offensive with the British attacking near Arras in Artois, northern France, while the French Nivelle Offensive was launched on the Aisne and the air forces were called on to provide support, predominantly in reconnaissance and artillery spotting. (references) | ||
| Bloody Assizes | The Bloody Assizes were a series of trials in September 1685 in the aftermath of the Battle of Sedgemoor, which ended the Monmouth Rebellion in England. (references) | ||
| Bloody Benders | The Bloody Benders were a family of serial killers who owned a small general store and inn in Neosho County, Kansas from 1872 to 1873. The family consisted of John Bender, his wife, son, and daughter Kate. Kate was very attractive and outgoing, and thus became a large draw for the Bender's establishment. She proclaimed herself to be a healer and psychic who could cure sickness and contact the dead. Kate is believed to be the driving force behind the Bender family killings. (references) | ||
| Bloody Bones | Bloody Bones is a hobgoblin feared by children. (references) | ||
| Bloody Christmas | Bloody Christmas refers to the controversy surrounding the beating of seven young Latino men by about fifty members of the Los Angeles Police Department while the young men were in police custody on Christmas day, 1951. The men had been rounded up after fighting with some of the officers at a bar in Elysian Park. The new police chief, William H. Parker, had just begun a reform campaign based on the idea of police professionalism and autonomy from civilian control; Bloody Christmas threatened to disrupt that campaign, as Mexican-American activists called for police accountability to civilian authority. Eight officers were indicted in the scandal. The event was later portrayed in James Ellroy's L.A. Confidential. (references) | ||
| Bloody flux | The dysentery, a disease in which the flux or discharge from the bowels has a mixture of blood. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Bloody Friday | Bloody Friday is the name given to July 21, 1972, due to bombing by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) in and around Belfast, Northern Ireland on that day. 22 bombs were planted and, in the resulting explosions, 9 people were killed and a further 130 seriously injured. (references) | ||
| Bloody hand | 1: A hand stained with the blood of a deer, which, in the old forest laws of England, was sufficient evidence of a man's trespass in the forest against venison. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: A red hand, as in the arms of Ulster, which is now the distinguishing mark of a baronet of the United Kingdom. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | |||
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Specialty Expressions: bloody
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Bloody Assizes | Literature | The infamous assizes held by Judge Jeffreys in 1685. Three hundred were executed, more whipped or imprisoned, and a thousand sent to the plantations for taking part in Monmouth's rebellion. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| BLOODY BACK | Slang in 1811 | BLOODY BACK. A jeering appellation for a soldier, alluding to his scarlet coat. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
| Bloody Bill | Literature | 1: The 31 Henry VIII., c. 14, which denounced death, by hanging or burning, on all who denied the doctrine of transubstantiation. 2: (See Butcher .) 3: A man whose hand was bloody, and was therefore presumed to be the person guilty of killing the deer shot or otherwise slain. (Cf. RED HAND.) Also the badge of a baronet. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Bloody heck | MultiLingual Slang | Breton (gast, gast a gurun), French (putain), Finnish (voi helvetti), Occitan (putan). (references) | |
| Bloody hell | Slang | Oh my gosh. (references) | |
| Bloody nipple | Slang | Noun. Source: Linguistic 101 students at the University of Oregon. Definition: In the game of Frisbee a bloody nipple refers to (a game of shirts and skins to separate the teams) when one slides or falls hard onto their chest. Context: After a game or directly after a fall, this term may be used to describe the person who fell. Social Source: U of O Ultimate Frisbee Players. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) | |
| Bloody scours | Biology & Biotechnology | A common, mucohemorrhagic diarrheal disease of pigs, which affects the large intestine and is caused by Treponema hyodysenteriae. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Bloody sweat | Bible | Bloody sweat the sign and token of our Lord's great agony (Luke 22:44). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. | |
| Bloody Wedding | Literature | 1: St. Bartholomew's slaughter in 1572 is so called because it took place during the marriage feast of Henri (afterwards Henri IV.,) and Marguerite (daughter of Catherine). 2: (The). The week ending on Sunday, May 28th, 1871, when Paris was burning, being set on fire by the Communists in hundreds of places. The destruction was frightful, but Nôtre Dame, the Hôtel Dieu, and the magnificent collection of pictures in the Louvre, happily escaped demolition. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Flux, bloody | Bible | (Acts 28:8) the same as our dysentery, which in the East is, though sometimes sporadic, generally epidemic and infectious, and then assumes its worst form. (references) | |
| RAWHEAD AND BLOODY BONES | Slang in 1811 | RAWHEAD AND BLOODY BONES. A bull beggar, or scarechild, with which foolish nurses terrify crying brats. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
| Sweat, bloody | Bible | One of the physical phenomena attending our Lord’s agony in the garden of Gethsemane is described by St. Luke, (Luke 22:44) "His sweat was as it were great drops (lit. clots) of blood falling down to the ground." Of this malady, known in medical science by the term diapedesis, there have been examples recorded in both ancient and modern times. The cause assigned is generally violent mental emotion. (references) | |
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