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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BLOOD'Y, a. Stained with blood.
1. Cruel; murderous; given to the shedding of blood; or having a cruel, savage disposition; applied to animals.
2. Attended with bloodshed; marked by cruelty; applied to things; as a bloody battle.
BLOOD'Y, v.t. To stain with blood.
BLOODY', adv. Very; as bloody sick, bloody drunk. [This is very vulgar.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: having or covered with or accompanied by blood; "a bloody nose"; "your scarf is all bloody"; "the effects will be violent and probably bloody"; "a bloody fight" [ant: bloodless]
2: informal intensifiers; "what a bally (or blinking) nuisance"; "a bloody fool"; "a crashing bore"; "you flaming idiot" [syn: bally, blinking, bloody, blooming, crashing, flaming, fucking] v
1: cover with blood; "bloody your hands" adv
1: extremely; "you are bloody right"; "Why are you so all- fired aggressive?" [syn: bloody, damn, all-fired]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective (bloodier; -est) Date: before 12th century 1. a. containing or made up of blood b. of or contained in the blood 2. smeared or stained with blood 3. accompanied by or involving bloodshed; especially marked by great slaughter 4. a. murderous b. merciless, cruel 5. bloodred 6. sometimes vulgar damned — often used as an intensive • bloodily adverb • bloodiness noun Synonyms: bloody, sanguinary, gory mean affected by or involving the shedding of blood. bloody is applied especially to things that are actually covered with blood or are made up of blood <bloody hands>. sanguinary applies especially to something attended by, or someone inclined to, bloodshed <the Civil War was America's most sanguinary conflict>. gory suggests a profusion of blood and slaughter <exceptionally gory, even for a horror movie>. II. transitive verb (bloodied; bloodying) Date: 1530 1. to make bloody or bloodred 2. harm, damage <an administration bloodied by scandal> III. adverb Date: 1661 sometimes vulgar — used as an intensive

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj., adv., & v. --adj. (bloodier, bloodiest) 1 a of or like blood. b running or smeared with blood (bloody bandage). 2 a involving, loving, or resulting from bloodshed (bloody battle). b sanguinary; cruel (bloody butcher). 3 coarse sl. expressing annoyance or antipathy, or as an intensive (a bloody shame; a bloody sight better; not a bloody chocolate left). 4 red. --adv. coarse sl. as an intensive (a bloody good job; I'll bloody thump him). --v.tr. (-ies, -ied) make bloody; stain with blood. Phrases and idioms: bloody hand Heraldry the armorial device of a baronet. Bloody Mary a drink composed of vodka and tomato juice. bloody-minded colloq. deliberately uncooperative. bloody-mindedly colloq. in a perverse or uncooperative manner. bloody-mindedness colloq. perversity, contrariness. Derivatives: bloodily adv. bloodiness n. Etymology: OE blodig (as BLOOD, -Y(1))

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bloody Blood"y, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bloodied; p. pr. & vb. n. Bloodying.] To stain with blood. --Overbury.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(bloodier, bloodiest, bloodies, bloodying, bloodied) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Bloody is used by some people to emphasize what they are saying, especially when they are angry. (BRIT RUDE) ADJ: usu ADJ n [emphasis] 2. If you describe a situation or event as bloody, you mean that it is very violent and a lot of people are killed. Forty-three demonstrators were killed in bloody clashes... They came to power in 1975 after a bloody civil war. ADJ: usu ADJ n • bloodily Rebellions in the area were bloodily repressed by pro-government forces. ADV: ADV with v 3. You can describe someone or something as bloody if they are covered in a lot of blood. He was arrested last October still carrying a bloody knife... Yulka's fingers were bloody and cracked. ADJ: usu ADJ n • bloodily The soldier reeled bloodily away. ADV: ADV with v 4. If you have bloodied part of your body, there is blood on it, usually because you have had an accident or you have been attacked. One of our children fell and bloodied his knee... She stared at her own bloodied hands, unable to think or move. VERB: V n, V-ed

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

blud'-i (dam = "blood" of man or an animal; and where the King James translators have rendered with the adjective "bloody," the Hebrew employs the noun in the construct case, "of blood"): "A bridegroom of blood" (Ex 4:25,26, the King James Version bloody husband). Zipporah, not being an Israelite, probably objected to the circumcision of infants, if not to the rite altogether; apprehending, however, that her husband's life was imperiled possibly through some grievous sickness (Ex 4:24) because of their disobedience in this particular, she performed the ceremony herself upon her son, saying, "A bridegroom of blood art thou to me."

In the Revised Version (British and American) the expression (the King James Version "bloody") is variously rendered, "man of blood" (2Sa 16:7,8); "men of blood" (Ps 26:9); "bloodthirsty" (Ps 5:6; 59:2; 139:19). In 2Sa 21:1, "It is for Saul, and for his bloody house," might be rendered "Upon Saul and his house rests bloodshed."

Ezekiel calls Jerusalem "the bloody city" (Eze 22:2; 24:6; compare Eze 7:23), referring to those unjustly put to death by the wicked rulers of Jerusalem. Nineveh also is called "the bloody city" (Na 3:1). The capital here virtually stands for the kingdom, and history bears witness to the enormous cruelties perpetrated by the Assyrian rulers. It is siege on siege, pools of blood everywhere, the flaying of men alive, "great baskets stuffed with the salted heads of their foes." For two hundred years it is th e story of brute force and ruthless cruelty. "The prey departeth not." And now every cruelty which they have visited upon others is to be turned upon themselves (Na 3:19).

M. O. Evans

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Sanguinary, ensanguined, gory. See blood-stained. 2. Murderous, cruel. See blood-thirsty.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

A favourite word used by the thieves in swearing, as bloody eyes, bloody rascal.

Moby Thesaurus

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