bloodyadj.n.adv.

Brit.

/ˈblʌdi/, U.S.

/ˈblədi/

Forms: Old English blodeg, Old English blodg- (inflected form), Old English blodig, Old English–Middle English blodi, Middle English blode, Middle English bloide, Middle English bloode, Middle English bludi, Middle English–1500s blodye, Middle English–1500s bludy, Middle English–1600s blodie, Middle English–1600s blody, Middle English–1600s bloudy, Middle English– bloody, 1500s–1600s bloddy, 1500s–1600s blooddie, 1500s–1600s blooddy, 1500s–1600s bloodie, 1500s–1600s blouddie, 1500s–1600s bloudie, 1500s–1600s bluddie, 1500s–1600s 1900s (regional and nonstandard)– bluddy, 1600s bluddi, 1900s– ber-lady (nonstandard), 1900s– bluidy (Irish English (northern)); English regional 1700s bleady (north-western), 1800s bliddy (south-western), 1900s– blouddy (Yorkshire); Scottish pre-1700 blodi, pre-1700 blodie, pre-1700 blody, pre-1700 bloudie, pre-1700 bloudy, pre-1700 bluddie, pre-1700 bluddy, pre-1700 bludy, pre-1700 1700s–1800s bludie, pre-1700 1700s–1800s bluidie, pre-1700 1700s– bluidy, 1700s– bleedy (north-eastern), 1700s– bloody, 1800s bludey, 1900s– bleedie, 1900s– bliddie, 1900s– bliddy.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian blōdich , Middle Dutch bloedich (Dutch bloedig ), Old Saxon blōdag , blōdig (Middle Low German blōdig ), Old High German bluotag , bluotīg (Middle High German bluotec , German blutig ), Old Icelandic blóðugr , blóðigr , Old Swedish blodhogher (Swedish blodig ), Old Danish blothug (Danish blodig ) < the Germanic base of blood n. + the Germanic base of -y suffix¹.The origin of the intensifying use of the adjective (sense A. 8) and adverb (sense C. 2) is uncertain and disputed. It has been suggested that this usage derives from oaths referring to the blood of Christ (compare Christ's blood!, God's blood! at blood n. 6, 'Sblood n.), although this seems unlikely given firstly that none of these interjections is recorded in intensive use themselves, and secondly that a functional shift from interjection to intensifier would be highly unusual. (Although compare woundy adv., woundy adj.²) Similar difficulties are encountered by the suggestion that bloody shows either a reduced form of, or a euphemistic alteration of, byrlady int. (see quot. 1711 at waistcoat n. 1b for an example that is often said to show this, but apparently without any early textual authority). It has been argued that intensifying use originated with the phrase bloody drunk , which provides the earliest evidence of adverbial use of bloody in this use (compare quot. 1676 at sense C. 2a) and is relatively common in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Various attempts have been made to explain this phrase, including derivation from blood n. 15a, with allusion to the drinking habits of aristocratic rowdies of the 17th cent., a formation which would be comparable to drunk (also merry, tipsy) as a lord at lord n. and int. Phrases 3d, although no parallel phrase with blood n. is attested to support this hypothesis. Alternatively, it has been suggested that bloody drunk reflects attitudes to the Catholic dogma of transubstantiation (which dictates that consecrated wine is substantially transformed into the blood of Christ in the Eucharist) and the drinking habits of priests during the Reformation: see further S. Biscetti in Eng. Hist. Linguistics 2006 (2008) II. 53–74. Compare the following earlier use of bloody drunk in the literal sense ‘drunk on blood’, with reference to the persecution of heretics by Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London under Mary I, who was known from at least the mid 16th cent. as ‘Bloody Bonner’ (see 1563 at sense A. 4a) and is characterized in this text as a rapacious wolf:1569 T. Knell Epit. Boner sig. A.iiij Not drunk wt wine..But bloody drunk sith hee not one, did spare of Christes sheep.The word bloody does seem to be used especially often in this period with derogatory reference to Catholic individuals, practices, and beliefs, and it seems likely that this may in part reflect association with (and aversion to) the doctrine of transubstantiation among Protestants. However, the adjective is attested a century before the adverb as an intensifier (sense A. 8), which would appear to suggest the following different course of development. The collocation bloody whore in quot. c1540 at sense A. 8a(a) may echo use of this phrase with reference to the Whore of Babylon (where literal bloodshed is clearly alluded to: compare Revelation 17:6, 18:24), although there is no implication of literal bloodshed in the use in this quot. (see also quot. 1545 at sense A. 4a). In many cases in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, especially where the adjective modifies a derogatory word for a person (e.g. bloody villain, bloody murderer, bloody thief, etc.), it is unclear whether bloody refers to real blood, bloodshed, or bloodthirstiness, or is an intensifier. It seems likely that the intensifying uses of bloody arose from semantic bleaching in formations of this type. Compare, with similar semantic development, Middle French sanglant covered with blood (c1100 in Old French), hateful, despicable, (as an extreme intensifier and pejorative) accursed, damned (both mid 14th cent.; also 15th cent. in various imprecatory formulae).

A. adj.

a. Containing blood; composed or consisting of blood; resembling blood. Also in figurative contexts.

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the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood > [adjective]

bloodyeOE

sanguine1447

blood-likea1500

bloodish1530

crimson1560

sanguineous1646

sanguiferous1682

sanguinary1684

sanguinous1833

haemal1839

haematoid1840

haematic1854

haematogenic1876

haematogenous1880

haematal1886

eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) ii. xvii. 198 His micgge bið blodread swilce hio blodig sie.

OE Crist III 1174 Ða wearð beam monig blodigum tearum birunnen under rindum, reade ond þicce; sæp wearð to swate.

OE Antwerp Gloss. (1955) 60 Dissenteria, blodig utsiht.

a1250 Lofsong Lefdi (Nero) in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 207 Ich bide þe..bi his blodie swote,..bi his blodi Rune þet ron inne monie studen.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 13714 Stræhten after stretes blodie stremes.

?c1335 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 93 Þin eiine blodi teris wepe.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. v. xxi. 208 Þe tonge is a substaunce fleischely and bloody [L. sanguinea].

a1475 Diseases Hawk (Harl. 2340) f. 25^v Gyfe hir no blody mete bot wasch hir mete..And wryng owte all þe bloode.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. XXXiiii In greate agony he swet blody dropes.

1585 J. Banister Wecker's Compend. Chyrurg. i. 89 But if your proceeding hitherto be free, & withe out any interruption of bloudie fluxions, then go on to fill the wounde.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 550 Those which are molested with corrupt and bloody spettings with retchings.

a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iv. ii. 211 Slaues, that take their [sc. kings'] humors for a warrant, To breake within the bloody house of life.

a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1683) v. 113 In Hawks and Cormorants I have sometimes observed bloody excretions.

1703 T. Gibson Anat. Humane Bodies Epitomized (ed. 6) iii. iii. 575 Which Pith is called Diploe, and is a spongie and cavernous substance containing a medullar and somewhat bloody juice for the nourishment of the Skull.

1794 B. Humpage Physiol. Res. Animal Œconomy 99 We frequently may observe in putrid fevers, blood discharged from the eyes, nose, ears, mouth, a diarrhœa, bloody urine, bloody discharge from blisters.

1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV cxlii. 74 Here, where Murder breathed her bloody steam.

1845 Lancet 11 Jan. 35/1 Many of the children were affected with bloody diarrhœa.

1875 B. W. Richardson Dis. Mod. Life 15 The phenomenon called, in early times, ‘bloody sweat’, has been disputed.

1911 Grocer's Encycl. at Kosher If the animal is pronounced Kosher, the meat undergoes the next operation of Porging—the removal of all bloody veins and gristle.

1968 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 28 Mar. 744/1 She was found to be in acute respiratory distress, gasping for air, cyanotic and producing bloody sputum.

1996 Time Out N.Y. 4 Sept. 119/1 Ask for your steak cooked Pittsburgh , which means char-red: blackened outside, the meat within just touched by flame, pink and bloody.

2001 R. S. Neiman & A. Orazi in D. M. Knowles Neoplastic Hematopathol. (ed. 2) liii. 1881/1 Because the spleen is by nature a bloody organ, attention to careful processing assumes greater importance than in many other organs.

†b. Of an animal: = blooded adj. 4. Obsolete.

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the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood > [adjective] > having

bloody1608

sanguineous1646

blooded1834

haematose1865

1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 10 Aristotle and Galen define a Serpent to be animal sanguineum pedibus orbatum & oviparum, that is, a bloody Beast without feete, yet laying eggs.

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια v. 323 For the perpetuall generation of vitall spirits in bloody Creatures there is required great abundance of aer, which can onely be supplied by Respiration.

1683 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Two Disc. Soul of Brutes i. iii. 13 After the bloodless Brutes, their second Class, and of a little higher degree, is that of the more cold bloody Creatures.

†c. Relating to blood. Obsolete. rare.

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1716 M. Davies Diss. Physick 4 in Athenæ Britannicæ III Cæsalpinus had a proper Opportunity to speak at large of that Bloody discovery [i.e. of the circulation of the blood].

2. Covered, smeared, or stained with blood; bleeding.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [adjective] > of blood > bleeding

bloodyOE

bleedinga1250

railinga1470

sanguinolent1598

sanguifluous1684

haemorrhagious1753

weltering1816

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [adjective] > stained > stained or smeared with blood

redOE

bloodyOE

drearyOE

weta1300

bloodedc1300

bleedingc1305

forbled1387

gory?a1500

cruent1524

purpled1561

brued1563

beweltered1565

bloodied1566

beblubbered1582

purple1590

bloodstained1594

ensanguined1628

blood-bedabbled1629

cruentous1648

cruentate1661

begored1683

sanguined1700

bluggy1876

OE Beowulf (2008) 2440 Hæðcyn..miste mercelses ond his mæg ofscet, broðor oðerne blodigan gare.

lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1117 On þære nihte..wearð se mona lange nihtes swylce he eall blodig wære & syððan aðistrode.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 13382 Þer me iseon mihte..men to-swelten, blodie [c1300 Otho blodede] ueldes.

c1325 (?a1200) Leges Quatuor Burgorum (Ayr) lxxxii, in Acts Parl. Scotl. (1844) I. 349/1 Si quis verberando fecerit aliquem blaa et blodi.

c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 6362 Here is þat knif al blodi þat ich broȝte him wiþ of dawe.

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iii. l. 1400 This Leoun..A beste..Hath slain, and with his blodi snoute [etc.].

c1440 Second Hymn to Jesus (Thornton) in G. G. Perry Relig. Pieces in Prose & Verse (1914) 94 His bludy woundes was reuthe to see.

c1475 (c1450) P. Idley Instr. to his Son (Cambr.) (1935) ii. A l. 698 (MED) Who hath beeten thy childe and made hym so blodye?

1530–1 Act 22 Hen. VIII c. 12 To be beten with whippes..tyll his body be blody.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. vii. 21 The one in hand an yron whip did strayne, The other brandished a bloudy knife.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) ii. v. 71 My Teares shall wipe away these bloody markes.

1656 H. More Antidote Atheism (1662) iii. ix. 117 Dirty bloody spots.

1713 J. Addison Cato iii. i. 41 Let 'em each be..impaled, and left To writhe at leisure round the bloody Stake.

1757 T. Gray Ode II i. iii, in Odes 15 Weave with bloody hands the tissue of thy line.

1800 W. Windham Speeches Parl. (1812) I. 336 That scuffle, amongst Englishmen, would have terminated in a black eye or a bloody nose.

1881 Decatur (Illinois) Daily Rev. 28 July There was a bit of a skirmish..which resulted in a bloody lip to one of the contestants.

1900 A. M. Earle Stage-coach & Tavern Days viii. 179 The British commander..stirred his glass of brandy with his bloody finger.

1957 L. E. Pearson Elizabethans at Home viii. 550 A man who carried in his hand the bloody sword with which the boar had been slain.

2002 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 18 May l3 He staggered home from the pub with a bloody nose.

3. Of the colour of blood, blood-red.In quot. 1943 probably used punningly with allusion to senses A. 4a and A. 8a.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [adjective] > deep red or crimson

blood-redeOE

purpleOE

bloodyOE

purpurine1300

sanguinea1382

tuly1398

crimsonc1400

murreyc1400

purpurec1400

sanguinolentc1450

cramoisy1480

ruby-redc1487

rubya1500

sanguineousc1520

sanguine-coloured1552

blood-coloured1567

rubine1576

purple-red1578

rubied?1594

incarnadine1605

Tyrian?1614

rubiousa1616

murrey-coloured1657

haematine1658

vinaceous1688

carmine1737

claret-coloured1779

ensanguined1785

peony1810

sanguinaceous1816

gory1822

crimsony1830

vinous1834

laky1849

grenat1851

madder1852

wine-dark1855

pigeon's blood1870

poppy crimson1879

claret1882

vinous1894

alizarin1923

wine1950

OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.i) anno 979 Þy ilcan geare wæs gesewen blodig wolcen on oftsiðas on fyres gelicnesse.

OE Prognostics (Tiber.) (2007) 314 Lunam sanguinem [read sanguineam] uideri[t], damnum significat : monan blodigne gesihð hearm getacnað.

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. l. 2310 (MED) With blody hewe Þe platis briȝt wern of newe steyned.

c1450 J. Metham Physiognomy in Wks. (1916) 128 Qwydyr the balle off the ye be off blody coloure, or pale.

a1550 ( G. Ripley Compend of Alchemy (Bodl. e Mus.) f. 63^v After all these [colors] shall then appere ye blody red invariable.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) ii. iv. 61 Yorke. Now Somerset, where is your argument? Som. Here in my Scabbard..that Shall dye your white Rose in a bloody red.

1671 London Gaz. No. 627/4 A Bloody Bay Gelding,..was stollen out of Stamford Fields.

1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. i. vii. 42 A Face all pale with Powder, and a Shirt all bloody with Ribbons.

1755 Gentleman's Mag. June 280/1 An anchor was immediately dropped, and a red buoy (called the bloody buoy) fixed to it.

1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere ii, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 13 The bloody sun at noon, Right up above the mast did stand.

1823 J. G. Lockhart Moor Cal. in Anc. Spanish Ballads iv His banner..Whereon revealed his bloody field its pale and crescent moon.

1871 E. H. Moore Lost Life xvii. 196 A deathly white face, with two calm, unflinching eyes gazing straight up to him, and a line of bloody red across the fair cheek.

1912 Mrs. P. Campbell Let. Aug. in Bernard Shaw & Mrs. P. Campbell (1952) 35 The scullery maids..with their bloody nails and sealing-wax lips make my hair stand on end.

1943 Life 16 Apr. 75/3 Till..the Japanese bloody sun And Benito's flags are shot to rags,—And we know that our war job's done.

2010 L. Bickle Embers xvi. 284 A broad sweep of reds and pinks. It reminded Anya of a bloody sunset she'd seen on a news-reel after Chernobyl.

a. Of a person or animal: addicted to bloodshed, bloodthirsty; cruel.

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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > bloodthirstiness > [adjective]

bloodyeOE

bloodlyc1425

bloodthirsty1539

bloody-minded?1545

cannibal1555

blood-thirsting?1569

sanguinolent1577

blood-drinking1594

cannibalian1602

sword-minded1603

sanguisugous1615

sanguinary1623

sanguinarian1637

sanguinarious1654

sanguinous1663

sanguine1705

cannibalic?1795

cannibalish1796

cannibalistic1827

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > fierceness > bloodthirstiness > [adjective]

bloodyeOE

bloodthirsty1539

bloody-minded?1545

cannibal1555

blood-thirsting?1569

bloodly1574

sanguinolent1577

blood-drinking1594

cannibalian1602

sword-minded1603

sanguisugous1615

sanguinary1623

sanguinarian1637

sanguinarious1654

sanguinous1663

sanguine1705

cannibalic?1795

cannibalish1796

cannibalistic1827

faggoty-minded1856

eOE Metrical Dialogue of Solomon & Saturn (Corpus Cambr. 422) ii. 472 Engla dryhten..him helle gescop,..in sende..atol deor monig.., blodige earnas and blace nædran.

OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 304 Ða blodigan weras and ða þe willað facn, ne sceolan hi libban heora dagas healfe. Ða synd blodige weras ðe wyrcað manslihtas.

?a1440 Hortus Vocab. in Trans. Bristol & Gloucs. Archaeol. Soc. (1923) 45 271 (MED) Cruentatus, blody or lef to schede blod.

1545 G. Joye Expos. Daniel (v.) f. 65 Making them dronken of that Babyloni blody whores cup of abhominacion.

1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1254/2 They reporte me to seke bloud, and call me bloudye Boner.

?1577 J. Northbrooke Spiritus est Vicarius Christi: Treat. Dicing 143 Howe the blouddie Papistes murther and slaughter in all places rounde aboute vs oure poore brethren.

1654 J. Rogers Sagrir (new ed.) iii. 81 Which Tyranny and accursed cruelty of theirs is condemned by bloody Queen Mary her selfe.

1681 Addr. from Radnor in London Gaz. No. 1671/4 The Factious Schismaticks, and Bloody Romanists.

1726 J. Barker Lining of Patch-work Screen 63 He look'd upon her as a bloody and a hateful Monster, never to be forgiven by God or Man.

1795 W. Windham Speeches Parl. (1812) I. 278 The administration of the bloody Robespierre.

1813 J. W. Campbell Hist. Virginia xi. 151 The end of this bloody warrior corresponded with his life... He was murdered.

1854 C. Dickens Child's Hist. Eng. III. xxx. 96 As Bloody Queen Mary, she will ever be justly remembered with horror and detestation.

1883 Cent. Mag. Jan. 434/2 One account says that he was a wild and bloody religionist.

1927 L. F. Abbott Twelve Great Modernists iii. 65 Henry VIII..—the king whom in youth he had admired as a liberal and who had now become a bloody despot.

1973 Rotarian Nov. 15 Red China is ruled by a bloody tyrant, who holds absolute power over his subjects.

2004 D. A. Pfeiffer End of Oil Age ix. 100 We hear that Chavez is a bloody dictator, but we do not hear how he has been duly elected by a large majority of Venezuelans.

b. Of a history, reputation, etc.: marked or tainted by brutality and bloodshed; characterized by violence, carnage, etc.

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1569 W. Samuel Abridgem. Olde Test.: Esther iii. sig. M.ii^v Wanting glory to his wil, he sought a bloody fame.

1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxviii. i. 325 From the exquisite narration of this bloudie hystorie, feare might justly pull me backe.

1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 423 The Battell is not to the strong;..the bloody Chronicles of Battells fought unequally, and won by the weakest will confirm it.

1725 R. Hurst Rom. Maid iii. vi. 45 With what Horror will Posterity Peruse thy bloody Annals?

1764 H. Walpole Castle of Otranto v. 196 May this bloody record be a warning to future tyrants!

1838 Amer. Biblical Repository Oct. 299 The long and bloody history of their contests with the Roman and Byzantine legions now commenced.

1872 R. G. McClellan Golden State xxxv. 606 His stone-axe, poison-arrow, and bloody record proclaim for a brief period his fierce career.

1910 H. S. Johnson Williams on Service vii. 77 Certainly no one was entirely safe from the machinations of Katipunan, that mysterious secret society of bloody fame.

1945 Berkshire County Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.) 2 May 9/1 One by one the heirs presumptive to Hitler's bloody mantle have faded from the German scene.

1999 M. Bassin Imperial Visions vi. 204 The nationalist Semenov strove to disassociate his own country from the brutal and bloody legacy left by the Europeans in the non-European world.

2007 Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville) (Nexis) 14 Aug. b7 The officers' time would have been better spent going after the thugs who are giving our city its bloody reputation.

a. Of a battle, conflict, war, etc.: attended with much bloodshed and slaughter; sanguinary. Also figurative.

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the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [adjective] > characteristic of slaughter

bloodyeOE

gory1586

sanguineous1612

sanguinary1625

cruentous1648

eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 128 Cruda, þa blodgan. [L. patiens discrimina cruda duelli.]

1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. 1 The horribill batellis and the bludy harmes..of Romanis.

1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xlviii. 100 A bitter and a bloudie conflict.

1623 J. Taylor New Discouery by Sea sig. B The bloudy fight endur'd at least sixe houres.

1678 N. Wanley Wonders Little World v. i. §102. 468/2 That long and bloody War in the Empire of Germany.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 70. ¶4 The Poet..describes a bloody Battle and dreadful Scene of Death.

1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. xlix. 143 After a bloody conflict of eight years.., the relics of the nation submitted.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 227 The most bloody day of the whole war.

1879 Scribner's Monthly Nov. 5/2 A grand festival..in celebration of the eighth anniversary of the bloody revolution of March 18th, 1871.

1911 O. D. Skelton Socialism ix. 225 Bloody fighting which left thousands dead.

1960 L. I. Perrigo Our Spanish Southwest iii. 43/2 At Santa Fe the soldiers fought two bloody battles with the besieging force.

2000 Nation (N.Y.) 28 Feb. 16/1 Khatami must worry that however bloody his battles with the orthodox ulema, he will have trouble riding the tiger he has helped unleash.

2006 Daily Tel. 21 June 13/1 The hurricane-ravaged city struggled to quell a fast-rising and bloody crime wave.

b. Of an act, deed, or practice: accompanied by or involving the flowing or spilling of blood.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [adjective] > of blood > bleeding > involving flowing of blood

bloodya1413

a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) v. l. 1759 Þey mette With blody strokes.

c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1879) l. 1388 Or hadde in armys manye a blodi box.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 199/1 Blody mensyn sickenesse.

1548 H. Latimer Notable Serm. sig. D.i^v Christe..draweth sowles vnto hym by hys bloudy sacrifice.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. iv. 22 Is't known who did this more then bloody deed?

a1653 Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 155 Our bloody blowes assuredly he feeles.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa V. xv. 162 While I was meditating a simple robbery, here have I..been guilty of murder! A bloody murder!

1764 T. Bridges Homer Travestie II. v. 27 This phantom in the battle stood..yet the de'el a soul could wound it, Though bloody blows were struck around it.

1828 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. 1 124 Their bloody idolatry, and stormful untutored energy.

1879 Scribner's Monthly Nov. 105/1 She ruled with majesty and wisdom, sometimes a decreer of bloody justice, sometimes an Amazonian counselor of warriors.

1906 J. P. Mahaffy Silver Age of Greek World ix. 220 The Essenes objected on principle..to bloody sacrifices.

1956 Life 16 Apr. 103/3 Max Baer steps back in to the ring and administered a movie version of the same bloody punishment.

2007 B. Eisler Requiem for Assassin xxv. 232 The fright of witnessing a bloody murder not ten steps from where he stood.

6. Of thoughts, words, etc.: concerned with, portending, or decreeing bloodshed; (of a sound) martial, warlike.

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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > bloodthirstiness > [adjective] > concerned with

bloody?c1225

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > fierceness > bloodthirstiness > [adjective] > concerned with

bloody?c1225

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 213 Ruben þu reade þocht þublodi delit.

c1300 Life & Martyrdom Thomas Becket (Harl. 2277) (1845) l. 537 Alto blodi was that word, and deore hit was ibouȝt, For therfore to dethe he was atte laste ibrouȝt.

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iii. l. 848 (MED) Þervppon was sette al his delit, Þat in his mortal blody appetit..he hadde hym slaw anon.

c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame (Fairf. 16) (1878) l. 1239 That maken blody soun In trumpe beme, and claryoun.

a1500 (?c1440) J. Lydgate Horse, Goose & Sheep (Lansd.) l. 219 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 548 (MED) Whan thei [sc. war-horses] of trumpetis her the blody soun.

1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. Pref. Without hearyng the cause bloody sentences are pronounced against it.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iv. i. 220 I do begin to haue bloody thoughts.

1660 in E. Nicholas Nicholas Papers (1920) IV. 198 From Kent I have an accompt that ye sectaryes are very bold and bloody in theire discourses.

1700 T. Betterton Henry IV, Part i i. iii. 9 Affrighted with their Bloody looks, [they] Ran fearfully among the trembling Reeds.

1771 ‘M. A. Porny’ Elements Heraldry (ed. 2) iii. 23 A print of the bloody Warrant for the execution of K. Charles I.

1815 Examiner 1 Jan. 5/2 The assassin, having failed in the execution of his bloody design, effected his escape.

1858 Harper's Mag. Mar. 515/1 Skeletons sit at every banquet; bloody secrets lie in coffers, fast locked until Death shall unshoot the bolt.

1906 C. M. Doughty Dawn in Brit. I. i. 26 Heremod, who..cometh on, with bright dart, And bloody intent.

1969 L. Litwak Waiting for News xiii. 87 He wanted the exterminators exterminated. He didn't mute his bloody wishes.

2008 S. Brunk Posthumous Career Emiliano Zapata iii. 84 Stories of Zapata's sexual conquests..and his bloody threats persisted as elements of his myth.

†7. Allied by blood. Obsolete.In c1400 with reference to the blood of Christ.

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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > [adjective] > by blood-relationship

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c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. vii. 196 (MED) Heo beoþ my blodi breþeren, for god bouȝte vs alle. [Also B. vi. 10; xi. 195; C. ix. 17.]

c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xi. l. 195 (MED) Alle are we..bretheren as of o blode..For on caluarye..blody bretheren we bycome.

8. colloquial.

(a) As an intensifier: absolute, downright, utter. Formerly sometimes in a negative sense: awful, terrible. More recently also as a mere filler, with little or no intensifying force (although generally implying some element of dislike, frustration, etc., on the part of the speaker). Cf. sense C. 2a.For a discussion of the possible origin of this sense and its adverbial counterpart see note in etymology.This word has long had taboo status, and for many speakers constituted the strongest expletive available. This is reflected in the regularity with which dashes, asterisks, etc., were formerly used to represent the word in print, and in the large number of euphemistic forms to which it has given rise, including bee n.⁴, bleeding adj. 5, blerry adj., plurry adj., sanguinary adj. 4, and perhaps blooming adj. 4. In the case of the adverb, the considerable public reaction to the utterance of the word on the London stage in George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion in 1914 (see quot. 1914 at sense C. 2b) gave rise to the further humorous euphemism Pygmalion adv. In most contexts the word's taboo status has now been largely or entirely lost; the process of normalization seems to have begun earliest in Australia.Following the original use in England, Scotland, and Ireland, the sense spread to most other parts of the English-speaking world, with the notable exception of the United States, where it has apparently only ever achieved limited currency, e.g. among sailors during the 19th cent.bloody hell: see hell int.

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the mind > goodness and badness > state of being accursed > [adjective] > as everyday imprecation

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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > utter or absolute

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c1540 in J. H. Forbes Liber Officialis Sancti Andree (1845) 139 Sayand and allegand ȝow ane commown bluidy huir.

1669 J. Dryden Wild Gallant i. 3 In short, I was drunk; damnably drunk with Ale; great Hogen Mogen bloody Ale: I was porterly drunk.

1681 T. Otway Souldiers Fortune iii. i. 30 He has been a bloody Cuckold-making Scoundrel in his time.

1699 G. Farquhar Love & Bottle iii. ii. 37 Was your Worship then Turk or Jew before?—I knew he was some damn'd bloody Dog.

1726 A. Smith Mem. Jonathan Wild 132 Oh! You bloody B—ch..is this all the Money you have about you?

1735 C. Coffey Merry Cobler ix. 26 Nell. Oh! 'tis Sir John , 'tis Sir John ; and he'll trounce you for this. Job. Sir John , you bloody Whore? I'll Sir John him; do you think to fob me off so? Strumpet.

1783 Proc. Old Bailey 15 Jan. 140/1 She said..as I had compounded felony with her, if she went to bloody Newgate, I should go with her.

1824 Fatal Effects of Gambling 489 [He] added, ‘I was a bl—y fool to go all the way to my friend Harper, at Norwich, to borrow that air-gun.’

1835 Adams Sentinel (Gettysburg , Pa.) 30 Mar. The Captain downed the certificate, and says he, ‘there's black and white against ye, you bloody old sculpen.’

1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xx. 61 They've got a man for a mate of that ship, and not a bloody sheep about decks!

1846 L. W. Miller Notes Exile Van Dieman's Land 328 We found a convict overseer... His first salutation was ‘Now you bloody new chum—! I have you!’

1889 Sunday Mag. Nov. 771/2 What is the bloody use of a bloody man saying the bloody word ‘bloody’ every bloody time he opens his bloody mouth?

1894 G. Moore Esther Waters xxxix. 302 All bloody rot; who says I'm drunk?

1912 K. Bellew Short Stories 51 I've allers drunk at this bloody pub, and I ain't a-goin' to shift down to that bloody shanty anyway.

1927 A. Crombie After Sixty Years 142 Although the word ‘bloody’ may have been more frequently in use 50 years ago than it is to-day, the man of the West used it in the same sense as the Johnnie used the words, jolly, or consummate. The bush adjective was neither obscene nor profane.

1957 M. Savill tr. H. Böll Unguarded House xv. 210 As he crossed the courtyard he heard the joiner say: ‘The chap's a bloody disgrace.’

1995 N. Whittaker Platform Souls (1996) xxxiii. 244 ‘Four bloody quid!’ he seethes.

2010 P. O'Grady Devil rides Out vi. 110 I've seen her sit up all night nursing a child who was having a severe asthma attack when she should have been off-duty... The woman was a bloody legend.

(b) Inserted between components of a collocation or phrase which are not normally separated. Cf. sense C. 2b.

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1866 W. H. Thomes Bushrangers 212 I will not turn traitor even to save my life. I should despise my bloody self if I did.

1917 E. L. G. Watson Mainland iv. 111 Some swipes have all the bloody luck!

1950 G. Wilson Brave Company v. 83 Thrilling? Hell's bloody bells!

2005 M. Cerasini Veto Power 92 Who's Shamus Lynch think he is, the Prince of bloody Wales?

b. British. Chiefly in predicative use. Bad, unpleasant, objectionable, deplorable; perverse, unreasonable, difficult. Cf. bloody-minded adj. 2. Now somewhat dated.

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the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > [adjective] > unpleasant

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1867 W. Allingham Diary 14 Oct. (1990) 150 R[ossetti] and I walking back take wrong turn—‘This is bl—y!’ He is very fond of this expletive.

1913 R. Brooke Let. 17 Sept. (1968) 511 That note-book... I lost it in British Columbia—yessir, isn't it too bloody.

1936 R. Lehmann Weather in Streets ii. 48 He developed my nastiness from a mere seed into a great jungle. He made me so mean and bloody... Well, I just am a bloody character, I suppose.

1954 A. Heckstall-Smith Eighteen Months xiii. 164 Why go out of your way to be bloody about Archie when I'm trying to help him?

1990 Accountancy Mar. 189/4 I must admit though I felt absolutely bloody after the first day—I was so unfit.

2005 J. Clanchy Vincenzo's Garden 146 If Kate hadn't been so bloody about everything, I might have given in.

9. English regional. Of good stock, well descended. rare.

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1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. He comes of a bloody stock; that's why he's good to poor folks.

1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. 13/2 A neyce sharp blouddy little hoss.

B. n.

†1. That which is bloody (in quot.: spec. that which contains blood). (In Old English in partitive genitive singular as postmodifier.) Obsolete.

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OE Confessionale Pseudo-Egberti (Junius) 191 Gyf man owiht blodiges ðicges [read ðicge] in healfsodenum mete [L. semicoctum comederit], gyf he hit ne wite, fæste vii dagas.

2. An utterance of the word ‘bloody’ as an expletive or intensifier.

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1896 R. Kipling in McClure's Mag. Sept. 291 'E learns to drop the ‘bloodies’ from every word he slings.

1937 Austral. Q. Sept. 76 Peppered with hells and bloodies..the men tell of their adventures.

1967 D. Pinner Ritual xiv. 139 His Chief continued to rant his way through another dozen ‘bloodies’.

1981 B. Paulu Television & Radio in United Kingdom x. 187 One staff member defended the ‘bloodies’..not as lapses, but as justified in their context.

2002 Times Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 1 Feb. 21 While the occasional ‘bloody’ is acceptable,..anything meatier is off the linguistic menu.

3. A rowdy or foppish young man; = blood n. 15a.

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the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > evil person > [noun]

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the mind > emotion > hatred > object of detestation (person or thing) > [noun] > loathsome or unpleasant person

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son of a ——?1576

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nuisance1661

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1960 D. Potter Glittering Coffin vii. 106 A few bloodys were provoked into their usual braying.

1986 Times Lit. Suppl. 16 May 527/1 Young bloodies whom Aldous Huxley, for one, saw across the quad with a shudder.

1990 I. Carter Anc. Cultures of Conceit v. 116 He is counterposed to the Master of Ballater, leader of his college's bloodies, aristocratic dining and hunting yahoos.

4. U.S. slang. = Bloody Mary n. 2.

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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > cocktail > [noun] > vodka cocktail

Bloody Mary1939

Moscow mule1944

screwdriver1948

vodka martini1953

vodkatini1955

Black Russian1957

White Russian1965

bloody1967

vodka Collins1969

Bloody Caesar1972

vodka gimlet1974

kamikaze1979

Sex on the Beach1986

caipiroska1990

appletini1997

1967 E. Elisofon Jrnl. 31 Aug. in Java Diary (1969) 123 I bought six cans of tomato juice in Djakarta. They're reserved strictly for ‘Bloodies’, as Joan calls them—and today I need one. Cheers!

1974 Wall St. Jrnl. 15 Apr. 5 (advt.) Perfect for drinking bloodies on the porch in Southampton.

1985 E. Leonard Glitz xiv. 120 ‘You want another Bloody?’.. ‘You like my Bloodies?’ ‘You make a good one... I think I'll switch though, if you have scotch.’

1999 C. B. O'Hara Bloody Mary ii. 15 The Bloody is the ultimate comfort drink.

2005 Daily Herald (Chicago) 3 Jan. 11/2 Thousands of parents and alumni are allowed to get sloshed on bloodies, beer, shots and screwdrivers.

C. adv.

†1. Bloodily; with blood. Obsolete.

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the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood > [adverb]

bloodyc1225

c1225 (?c1200) St. Margaret (Bodl.) (1934) 6 Ne let tu neaure mi sawle for-leosun wið þe forlorene..þe beoð al blodi bi-blodeget of sunne.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 24082 It es nu grisli on to sene, His bodi al blodi wat.

a1400 Siege Jerusalem (Laud) (1932) l. 599 So was þe bent ouer-brad, blody by-runne.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 10424 Buernes on þe bent blody beronen.

1596 E. Spenser Faerie Queene (new ed.) ii. ii. sig. O3 He..Their sharpe assault right bloudy [1590 boldly] did rebut.

2. colloquial.

a. As an intensifier, modifying an adjective or adverb: absolutely, completely, utterly. More recently also as a mere filler, with little or no intensifying force (although generally implying some element of dislike, frustration, etc., on the part of the speaker).For discussion of this sense and of the similar use of the adjective see sense A. 8a.bloody well: see well adv. and n.⁴ Phrases 1d.

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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > very

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1676 G. Etherege Man of Mode i. i. 10 Not without he will promise to be bloody drunk.

1684 J. Dryden Prol. to Play call'd Disappointment The Doughty Bullies enter Bloody Drunk.

1693 T. Southerne Maids Last Prayer ii. ii. 31 Faith and troth, you were bloody angry.

1693 T. Southerne Maids Last Prayer iii. i. 38 She took it bloody ill of him.

1703 Observator 26 June Don't they Strip and Pull off their Cloaths when they go to work? 'Tis Bloody hot Business.

1716 A. Pope Full Acct. E. Curll 3 His Wife..said, ‘Are you not Sick, my Dear?’ He reply'd ‘Bloody Sick.’

1753 S. Foote Englishman in Paris ii. 29 She's a bloody fine Girl.

1755 Monthly Rev. July 2 He's regarded at the tipling-houses as a drol, comical dog..and withal, perhaps, he sings a bloody good song.

1779 St. James's Chron. 30 Oct. The Jew Brokers, who frighten weak-minded Stockholders with some bloody bad News, and then pick their Pockets.

1801 M. Edgeworth Belinda I. vii. 208 Sir Philip writes a bloody bad hand.

a1845 R. H. Barham Wedding-day in Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 3rd Ser. iii. vi. 42 This is a bloody positive old Fellow.

1857 Knickerbocker Oct. 333 I say, Spencer, what a bloody fine Yankee frigate that was we passed the other day.

1887 N.E.D. Bloody,..As an intensive: Very... In general colloquial use from the Restoration to c1750; now constantly in the mouths of the lowest classes, but by respectable people considered ‘a horrid word’, on a par with obscene or profane language, and usually printed in the newspapers (in police reports, etc.) ‘b——y’.

1891 N.Z. Parl. Deb. 73 333/2 He added, ‘If I get in I will make it bloody hot for you.’

1908 H. C. Rowland Across Europe in Motor Boat ii. 38 I bloody calls this a bloody piece o' bloody h'impertinence!

1937 ‘J. Bell’ Murder in Hosp. viii. 156 I've always thought her a bloody awful great brute.

1965 O. B. Egbuna Anthill ii. 33 You're puttin' it bloody mildly, I can tell yer.

1991 J. Cartwright To 35 Fred: He's not going to get on that palomino horse is he? Alice: No way. Fred: He bloody is you know.

2006 Company Nov. 11/2 You can't deny David's a bloody good-looking lad.

b. Inserted between components of a collocation or phrase which are not normally separated, and sometimes (esp. for comic effect) into a word. Cf. absolutely int. 2.

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1871 Ballou's Monthly Mag. July 56/1 Look here, Mr. Bloody Davis, you've held your head up a little too high in this packet.

1911 La Follette's Weekly Mag. 4 Feb. 11/2 He tried to say that something was absolutely true. He succeeded in saying, ‘It is abso-bloody-lutely true.’

1914 G. B. Shaw Pygmalion 111 Walk! Not bloody likely.

1923 J. Manchon Le Slang 65 Half bloody dead…stoney bloody broke.

1982 Benedicta! Fall 2 Receiving news from Uncle Mal twelve times a year would be ideal..but that is im-bloody-possible.

2003 Northern Territory News (Austral.) (Nexis) 31 Dec. 4 ‘It's gone from bad to bloody worse,’ she said.

Phrases

colloquial (originally U.S.). to scream (also cry, yell, etc.) bloody murder: to scream loudly, esp. due to fear or alarm; to make an extravagant and noisy protest.With quot. 1976 cf. blue murder n. Phrases 1.

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1833 J. Hall Harpe's Head vi. 68 Poor Virginia, screaming bloody murder all the while.

1875 Frank Leslie's Illustr. Newspaper 4 Sept. 442/3 The pair of 'em grabbed the messenger and put them handcuffs on him, the fellow hollering bloody murder all the time.

1948 J. Maresca My Flag is Down vi. 39 He merely smacks her around the more and she's yelling bloody murder.

1976 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Jrnl. 6 Feb. 13/1 Western liberals..scream blue, bloody murder at the right-wing dictatorships.

1993 O. E. Allen Tiger viii. 215 The Fusionists cried bloody murder and dropped the two men from their slate.

2005 New Yorker 16 May 82/3 She would throw herself down, beat the floor, grow purple in the face, scream bloody murder.

Compounds

C1.

a. General attributive.

bloody-black adj.

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1772 T. Cullum in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 62 466 Half a pint of a bloody-black water in the thorax.

1864 Captain Herbert I. iii. 52 Down goes the sun in a blaze to seaward, with everything bloody-black and big against it like beetles and crab's-claws.

2009 N. Glukhov Risen from Hell iv. 43 His belly turned into indescribable bloody-black mess.

b. Parasynthetic.

bloody-eyed adj.

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1609 F. Greville Trag. Mustapha iiii. ii. sig. F2^v He bids them hast their charge; and bloudy ey'd, Beheld his sonne while he obeying died.

1821 Ld. Byron Sardanapalus iv. i. 110 A..bloody-eyed, And bloody-handed, ghastly, ghostly thing.

2005 L. Gibson & D. F. Mills Faces of Evil i. ii. 54 I looked like a monster, bloody-eyed and fierce.

bloody-faced adj.

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a1594 R. Greenham Second Pt. Wks. (1600) xxxiii. 153 Those bloudy faced sins,..as murther, treason, adultery and theft.

1857 C. Mackay Leg. of Isles 5 War, old tyrant, bloody-faced and pale.

2009 C. Raphino Fire in Ocean ii. vii. 95 He found a bloody-faced, broken down young woman crying and coughing up blood.

bloody-handed adj.

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1588 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha (new ed.) ii. vii. 220 Youth..whether brawling, quarrelous, lightfingred or bloudie-handed.

1821 Ld. Byron Sardanapalus iv. i. 110 A..bloody-eyed, And bloody-handed, ghastly, ghostly thing.

2000 O. Douglas Salvo for Afr. 104 After euphoria of independence used to create power for bloody-handed soldiers.

bloody-hearted adj.

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1598 F. Hastings Watch-word to English-men 65 Wee stand for our Soueraigne, and countrie, against barbarous, vnnaturall, and most monstrous bloodie harted treasons.

1846 Mechanics' Mirror July 149/2 Persecution bore them as martyrs..to feast the eyes of bloody-hearted spectators..in the amphitheatre.

2008 H. Bedford-Jones Pirates' Gold viii. 87 I feared that the imp Dickon would pistol us where we lay..for the lad was bloody-hearted.

bloody-lipped adj.

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1837 Dublin Univ. Mag. Mar. 280 I knew at once a bloody-lipped hyena To've been a Russian Marshal.

1912 Chester (Pa.) Times 23 Mar. 1/4 With a cry the frenzied father rushed at the bloody lipped hound, kicking it into a far corner of the room.

2010 Daily News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 22 May 2 The trouble-prone reporter was busted by the NYPD Thursday night after a bloody-lipped chauffeur went to..report the assault.

bloody-mouthed adj.

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1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. viii. sig. G6^v And euery head was..Bloody mouthed with late cruell feast.

1658 T. Bancroft Time's out of Tune xviii. 130 Then comes that bloudy-mouthed Monster, War.

1796 J. Spalding Sentiments conc. Coming & Kingdom of Christ iii. 59 Since the image of the beast rose up in the world, notwithstanding his appearance is so lamb-like,..the people of God suffer as much, and perhaps more, than they did by his ferocious bloody-mouthed predecessor.

1865 Richmond (Va.) Times 19 July 4/2 We have fought a good fight..against the remorseless, implacable and bloody-mouthed advocates of sectional agitation, Jacobinism and disfranchisement.

1979 A. Sinclair Facts in Case of E. A. Poe (1980) vi. 77 She came back from her cataleptic swoon, all bloody-mouthed like Elizabeth Arnold and William Henry Poe in their coughing deaths.

2007 Toronto Star (Nexis) 11 July a6 Frances stood facing the bloody-mouthed pit bull, armed with nothing but her courage and a shovel.

bloody-nosed adj.

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1792 J. Émïn Life & Adventures Joseph Émïn 49 The bloody-nosed and black-eyed gentlemen sailors..came and shook hands with him.

1892 C. Warren Miss Wilton xxii. 481 She remembered following him as he carried the bloody-nosed little urchin.

1922 Sandusky (Ohio) Reg. 28 July 4/1 These nations stand, like..bloody-nosed youngsters in an alley..ready to fly at each other again.

2005 P. Maguire Facing Death in Cambodia v. 103 Hun Sen was a bloody-nosed realist—to him there was no separation between politics and war.

† bloody-sceptred adj. Obsolete

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a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. iii. 105 O Nation miserable! With an vntitled Tyrant, bloody Sceptred .

1881 A. J. Duffield tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote I. p. xv The coward and cruel hearts of the bloody-sceptred tyrants who held him in chains.

1913 A. O. Spare Bk. of Pleasure in Writings 59 Oh, folly of the world, deny thy faith, renounce this Bloody-Sceptred God and confess.

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bloodyback n. chiefly U.S. slang derogatory a British soldier (now historical); cf. bloody-backed adj., lobster n.¹ 3a, redcoat n. 1a.

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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by nationality > [noun] > British

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1770 Mass. Gaz. Extraord. 21 June 2/2 You Rascals, you bloody Backs, you Lobster Scoundrels; fire if you dare.

1836 Naval Mag. July 370 There were many riflemen and sharp shooters..by whom, we doubt not, that many a ‘bloody back’..and many a Hessian were laid low.

1899 Bookman Mar. 40/2 Folks think he's a bloodyback who's took French leave.

1997 R. M. Ketchum Saratoga (1999) viii. 149 They aimed at the crossed white belts on the bloodybacks' chests.

bloody-backed adj. †(a) colloquial (of a British soldier) wearing the traditional uniform of a red coat (cf. redcoat n. 1a) (obsolete); (b) that has a bloody back, esp. from whipping.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing clothing for specific people > wearing uniform > types of

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1770 Trial W. Wemms 102 We will knock down the first officer, or bloody backed rascal we shall meet this night.

1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet III. ii. 35 They have the bloody-backed dragoons..with them.

1878 S. Lanier in Appletons' Jrnl. Nov. 396/1 And that place of the lashing full quiet became;..and bloody-backed Hamish sat still.

1999 D. Ray Demons in Diner 59 Those masters Who would even now delight To order this slave Whipped bloody-backed.

bloody chasm n. U.S. (now historical) the estrangement between northern and southern states caused by the American Civil War; cf. chasm n. 5.In quot. 1863 applied to the American Civil War itself.

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1863 Standard 28 May 4/5 Why was the gallant brigade of Sedgwick hurled into the bloody chasm which is swallowing up, by thousands of victims at a time, the manhood of the North?

1876 Congress. Rec. June 3791/1 This measure is one of reconciliation. It reunites; it fills up the ‘bloody chasm’.

1950 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 36 735 He was..one of the most successful among the former Confederates in bridging the ‘bloody chasm’ on terms both honest and honorable.

2001 F. Hilfrich in J. Heideking et al. Celebrating Ethnicity & Nation xii. 234 The graves that had served as reminders of the bloody chasm and sectional separation were thus finally subsumed in a common American culture of remembrance.

† bloody-crying adj. Obsolete rare (of a sin) so bloody or brutal as to demand vengeance or punishment (with allusion to the crying out of the blood of Abel in Genesis 4:10).

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?1614 S. Rowlands Sir Thomas Ouerbury (single sheet) Proccede with vengeance as thou didst begin, To punish Caines most bloody crying sinne.

a1617 S. Hieron Penance for Sinne in Wks. (1620) II. 317 They are all bloudy-crying-sinnes, and such as to which belongs an especiall wo.

† bloody fall n. Obsolete rare a dark red or purple pustule or sore developing during the night, esp. on the foot.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [noun] > a suppuration > blain or chilblain

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1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 76 The angry chilblanes and bloudy-fals that trouble the feet in the night season.

1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Pedignoni, angrie kibes, chilblanes, or bloodie falles.

bloody flag n. now historical a red flag displayed as a sign of readiness for battle (cf. red flag n. 1).

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1589 J. Sarracoll in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations 801 The next day in the morning, in steede of their bloodie flagge, they put vp two white flagges.

1678 London Gaz. No. 1361 When it was light, he put abroad his bloody Flag at Main Topmost Head, fires a Gun, and commands us to Strike to the King of Argiers, and to Admiral Canary.

1789 W. G. Wheatcroft Powers of Fancy 22 When Civil Feuds this troubl'd island tore, And Discord pale her bloody flag high bore.

1838 Q. Rev. June 63 They hoisted the bloody flag, and they fired into two of the king's ships when escaping from them.

1953 A. P. Middleton Tobacco Coast xi. 331 They ran up a bloody flag at the mainmast truck to show that they would neither give nor receive quarter.

2004 M. B. Rediker Villains of All Nations v. 83 The pirates at some point raised their red or ‘bloody’ flag,..indicating that they would neither take nor give quarter.

bloody grave n. the grave of someone who has died by bloodshed.

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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > [noun] > of one dead by bloodshed

bloody grave1623

1623 J. Reynolds Triumphs Gods Revenge: 3rd Bk. xii. 103 And shall she any more lye in bedde with him, who so inhumanely hath layen him in his vntimely and bloody graue?

1800 W. Scott Eve St. John 9 By the Eilden tree, for long nights three, In bloody grave I have lain.

1998 E. R. Achtemaier Preaching Hard Texts of Old Test. xxi. 125 Generation after generation of young men go to war's bloody graves.

† bloody-hunting adj. Obsolete rare hunting for blood.

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a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iii. iii. 124 Herods bloody-hunting slaughter-men.

Bloody Indian n. [after Woods Cree miθκο-iθiniwak, lit. ‘blood people’ (see Blood Indian n. at blood n. Compounds 5)] now historical a member of a North American Indian people belonging to the Blackfoot Confederacy; = Blood Indian n. at blood n. Compounds 5.

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1758 J. Isham in A. J. Ray Indians in Fur Trade (1974) 55 Bloody Indians (or Mithcoo Ethenue) came down to trade.

1772 M. Cocking Jrnl. 1 Dec. in Trans. Royal Soc. Canada (1909) 2 ii. 110 There are 4 Tribes or Nations more..Viz., Mithco-Athinuwuck or Bloody Indians, Koskitow-Wathesitock or Blackfooted Indians, [etc.].

1974 A. J. Ray Indians in Fur Trade iii. 59 He may have served in some essentially diplomatic fashion that enabled the Bloody Indians to pass peacefully through Assiniboine and Cree territory.

1991 D. R. Russell 18th Cent. Western Cree & their Neighbours xi. 184 At first sight, it is puzzling why the group is called the Eagle Indians in one place and the Bloody Indians in another.

2002 C. W. Guthrie Glacier National Park 10 These tribes became known as the Siksika or Siksikauwa–Blackfooted people; the Kainaa–Many Chiefs, who were also known as Blood or Bloody Indians; and the Piikani.

† bloody-intended adj. Obsolete rare having bloody intentions.

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?1606 (title) Prayers and thanksgiuing to be vsed by all the Kings Maiesties louing subiects, For the happy deliuerance of his Maiestie, the Queene, Prince, and States of Parliament, from the most traiterous and bloody intentended massacre by gunpowder, the 5 of Nouember 1605.

† Bloody Monday n. Obsolete slang the first day of the school holidays, on which pupils who have committed an offence may be kept back and punished.

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society > education > educational administration > school administration > [noun] > day of punishment

Bloody Monday1682

1682 R. Verney Let. to Father from Winchester College 18 May in R. T. Warner Winchester (1900) iii. 26 Bloddy munday, upon which day all the Children..Goe home & after that day noe body stays but some of the Children which the warden makes stay here for some notorious action they have committed.

1765 D. Garrick in Universal Mag. 37 326/1 I, like a boy who long has truant play'd..On bloody Monday take my fearful stand And often eye the birchen-scepter'd hand.

1807 ‘Q. Queerum’ Ashburner's New Vocal & Poetic Repository 197 Like a snail he creeps, And for bloody Monday weeps.

bloody-nose beetle n. = bloody-nosed beetle n.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Phytophaga or Chrysomeloidea > family Chrysomelidae > bloody-nosed beetle

bloody-nose beetle1817

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1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. II. xxi. 247 You have doubtless often observed a black beetle crossing pathways with a slow pace, which feeds upon the different species of bedstraw (Galium, L.), called by some the bloody-nose beetle (Chrysomela tenebricosa, F.).

1966 J. Sankey Chalkland Ecol. iv. 98 Beetles... Timarcha tenebricosa (Fab.), greater bloody-nose beetle. T. goettingenis (L.), lesser bloody-nose beetle.

2007 Guardian (Nexis) 29 Aug. 30 I have an enduring and endearing image of a round, black, bloody-nose beetle walking across a child's hand.

bloody-nosed beetle n. a black European leaf beetle of the genus Timarcha (family Chrysomelidae), spec. the large T. tenebricosa, which exudes red fluid from the mouth in defence.

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bloody-nose beetle1817

bloody-nosed beetle1826

1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. xxix. 99 Some [eggs of insects] are yellow, as those of the silk-worm; others orange, such are the eggs of the bloody-nosed beetle (Timarcha tenebricosa).

1921 C. A. Ealand Insect Life vi. 210 The curious Bloody-Nosed Beetle, T. tenebricosa..is the largest European Chrysomelid, sluggish and wingless, and when touched it emits a blood-red fluid.

1998 Daily Tel. 29 July 24/4 Members of the Phytophaga include..the extraordinary bloody-nosed beetle, which exudes deep red blood from its mouth when disturbed.

bloody rain n. = blood rain n. at blood n. Compounds 5.

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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > [noun] > blood-rain

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lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Domitian A.viii) anno 685 Her wearþ on Brytene blodi ren [L. pluuia sanguinea], & meolc & butere wurdon gewend to blode, & Lothere Cantwara cing forþferde.]

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 649/1 In a little towne in Bedfordshire there fell a bloudie raine, whereof the red drops appeered in sheets, the which a woman had hanged out for to drie.

1758 T. Flloyd & J. Hill tr. J. Swammerdam Bk. Nature 40/2 It is not impossible that those who affirm that bloody rain has fallen, have been deceived in the same manner. Is it not possible, that such red drops might issue from insects?

1838 Econ. Vegetation 156 The ‘gory dew,’ Palmella cruenta, and ‘bloody rain,’ Lepraria kermesina..are referrible to these humble and harmless tribes of vegetation.

1901 Public Opinion 14 Mar. 348/3 The phenomenon of ‘bloody rain’ occurred in Sicily and Italy, due to dust from the African deserts blown across the Mediterranean.

2007 S. Hempel Strange Case Broad Street Pump 152 In fact, this phenomenon, known as bloody rain, gory dew or red snow, is caused by various types of algae..that produce a bright red pigment.

bloody shirt n. now rare a bloodstained shirt exhibited as a symbol of murder, outrage, or hostility; (United States) figurative as a symbol of the hostility between North and South during the Civil War.

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the world > life > death > killing > man-killing or homicide > murder or assassination > [noun] > symbol of

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > shirt > types of > other

bloody shirta1586

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Crimean shirt1853

Crimea shirt1857

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Ghost Shirt1890

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rugby shirt1902

bush shirt1909

tunic shirt1918

safari shirt1921

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aloha shirt1936

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zoot shirt1942

Hawaiian shirt1955

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kimono shirt1968

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a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. vi. sig. E1^v People..hauing no banners, but bloudie shirtes hanged vpon long staues.

1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. l. 266 The bloody shirt of the martyr was exposed in the mosch of Damascus.

1840 L. Cass France 44 [Foucher adds] It is by spreading out the miseries of the workmen, the bloody shirt of some victim,..that the people are excited to take arms.

1876 Congr. Rec. Apr. 2523/2 The ‘bloody shirt’ is freely used at one end of the Capitol, and here at this end is the bugaboo of State rights.

1888 New York Weekly Times 21 Mar. (Farmer) It is reprehensible..for the Bourbons of the South to continue to play on the colour line—the Southern bloody shirt.

1904 Indianapolis News 23 June 6 To those that remember campaigns a few years ago, this is very much like the ‘bloody shirt’, which did duty for so many years.

1948 J. G. Kerwin Civil–Military Relationships in Amer. Life 31 The G.A.R. [= Grand Army of the Republic] waved the Bloody Shirt in many a political campaign, advising its boys in blue to ‘vote as you shot’.

Bloody Statute n. (a popular name for) the Act 31 Hen. VIII. c. 4, called the Law of the Six Articles, imposing severe penalties on those who disputed certain articles of faith (see six adj. and n. Compounds 2).

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society > law > types of laws > [noun] > concerning religion

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Five-mile Act1672

Corporation Act1679

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Bill of Toleration1692

Test Act1708

Schism Act1733

Schism Bill1733

penal codea1777

Veto Act1835

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. CCxxxiiij Of some it was named the whip withe sixe strynges, and of some other and that of the moste parte, it was named the bloudy statute, for of truth it so in shorte time after skourged a great nombre in the citie of London.

a1648 Ld. Herbert Life Henry VIII (1649) 446 The Six Articles, called by some the Bloody Statute, were also enacted this Parliament [1539].

1769 E. Lewis Patriot King Displayed xxxii. 180 Dr. London, had caused three persons to be burnt at Windsor, upon the bloody statute, and had formed designs against many others.

1829 C. A. Goodrich Outl. Eccl. Hist. viii. 318 Towards the conclusion of Henry's reign, parliament had passed an act, commonly known by the name of the bloody statute, which consisted of six articles, designed to favour the cause of popery.

1944 F. L. Utley Crooked Rib III. 300 Furnivall believes the ballad may allude to the ‘Bloody Statute’ of 1539.

2008 A. P. Balk Saints & Sinners xxxi. 514 Henry personally pushed through Parliament the ‘Bloody Statute’ of the Six Articles..that imposed severe penalties against most of the standard Protestant beliefs.

bloody water n. now rare urine containing blood; the presence of blood in the urine, or the condition characterized by this (= haematuria n.).

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > urinary disorders > [noun] > blood in urine

bloody water1607

haematuria1811

haematinuria1879

haemoglobinuria1881

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 79 When Oxen come first of all after Winter to grasse, they fall grasse-sicke, and pisse blood;..some praise the kernels of Walenuts put into Egge-shels for this cure, and other take the bloody water it selfe and blow it into the beastes Nostrils.

1734 J. Arbuthnot Let. Oct. 4 in Swift's Lett. (1766) iii. 192 I had forborn [to ride] for some years, because of bloody water.

1870 Fifth Ann. Rep. Amer. Dairymen's Assoc. 65 Other astringent and irritant agents, such as the young shoots of oaks, firs, and the like,..induce indigestion, constipation and bloody water.

1974 P. Jones Living with Haemophilia vi. 88 Haematuria is a frequent complication in some haemophilias... Persistent and frequent bloody water sometimes implies an underlying infection.

b. In the names of plants with blood-red markings, or with blood-red coloured flowers, fruits, etc.

† bloody cardinal n. North American Obsolete rare the cardinal flower, Lobelia cardinalis (family Campanulaceae), which has spikes of scarlet flowers.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > bellflowers > lobelia or cardinal flower

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blue cardinal flower1723

lobelia1739

syphilitic lobelia1786

bloody cardinal1851

scarlet lobelia1874

1851 ‘I. Marvel’ Dream Life 199 The bloody cardinal of the swamp-lands.

1899 S. Pokagon Queen of Woods 70 She wore a skirt of green and waist of white, holding in her hands some stalks of bloody cardinal in full bloom.

bloody cranesbill n. a Eurasian geranium, Geranium sanguineum, a perennial shrub typically having deep pink flowers and finely divided foliage which turns red in autumn, now commonly grown in gardens in numerous cultivated varieties.

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1634 T. Johnson Mercurius Bot. 38 Geranium hæmatodes,..Red or bloody Cranes-bill.

1793 J. Nott Hotwell Waters 33 Geranium sanguineum. Bloody Crane's-bill. St. Vincents Rock, common. July, and August.

1863 M. Plues Rambles in Search of Wild Flowers 70 The Bloody Cranesbill..grows in luxuriance on the cliffs for some distance beyond Kynance.

1928 Times 9 Aug. 13/5 Here are strange plants, little known inland—blue sea-holly, the vivid seaside variety of the bloody cranesbill,..and lusty clumps of mauve sea rocket.

2004 G. Murphy Wild Flowers 96 (caption) Bloody Cranesbill is still to be seen on limestone in the Yorkshire and Derbyshire dales, despite having been preyed upon by unscrupulous gardeners.

bloody dock n. the red dock, Rumex sanguineus, having leaves with red veins.

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Rumex1565

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monk's rhubarb1597

Welsh sorrel1640

butterdock1688

mountain rhapontic1728

mountain sorrel1753

Rheum1753

redshank1810

patience dock1816

fiddle-dock1823

canaigre1868

nettle-docken1891

1597 J. Gerard Herball Table Eng. Names Bloodwort, that is bloodie Docke.

1761 J. Mordant Compl. Steward I. 48 Their [sc. clay lands] natural produce, as to weeds, are goose-grass, large daisies, thistles, bloody-dock, poppies, &c.

1852 Med. Times & Gaz. 21 Aug. 204/1 The leaves of the bloody dock are used as spinach on the Continent.

1903 Irish Naturalist Apr. 108 The Bloody Dock furnishes an instance..of a plant the leaves of which in Ireland very seldom develop the character from which the species derives its name.

2003 J. Glattstein Consider Leaf ii. 45 The color..may be located just along the petiole and major veins, as with bloody dock (Rumex sanguineus).

bloody finger n. Scottish (now historical) (chiefly in plural) the common foxglove, Digitalis purpurea.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > foxglove and allied flowers > foxglove

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witch bell1808

fairy fingers1811

fairy thimble1813

dead men's bells1818

witches' thimbles1820

fairy bells1821

fairy glove1841

flap-dock1846

cow-flop1847

pop-glove1847

lady's thimble1853

Scotch mercury1853

poppy1856

fairy petticoats1864

finger root1870

fairy weed1871

pop-dock1878

witches' bells1884

1789 D. Davidson Thoughts Seasons 63 Frae rankly-growing bri'ers an' bluidy-fingers.

a1824 in J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 29 The primrose, the bludifinger, and the crawtae grow unsqueez'd and unlooked at.

1873 Proc. Bath Nat. Hist. & Antiquarian Field Club 2 16 The noble Foxglove..bears a name with a similar meaning in almost all languages; in Scotland, however, it bears the more gloomy names of ‘bloody fingers’, and ‘dead man's bells’.

1908 S. R. Crockett Deep Moat Grange iv. 28 The hemlock and the foxglove, what we used to call ‘bloody fingers’, grow tall and red.

2001 Independent (Nexis) 16 June (Features section) 14 Fairy thimbles, dead men's bells, bloody fingers: these are a few of the imaginative names we have given to one of the most handsome plants in the herbal.

bloody man's finger n. (also bloody men's finger) English regional (now rare) (chiefly in plural) (a) the wild arum or cuckoo pint, Arum maculatum; (b) the early purple orchid, Orchis mascula; (c) the foxglove; = bloody finger n.

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cuckoo-pint1551

dragonwort1565

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starch root1596

friar's cowl1597

friar's-hood1597

starchwort1597

dragon serpentine1598

dragon's-herb1600

small dragonwort1674

dumb cane1696

skunk weed1735

polecat weed1743

lords and ladies1755

mucka-mucka1769

skunk cabbage1778

bloody man's finger1787

green dragon1789

swamp-cabbage1792

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cows and calves1853

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Adam and Eve1877

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1787 W. Withering Bot. Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 2) II. 1012 Arum maculatum... Bloody-men's fingers, Worcestershire.

1854 Notes & Queries 16 Sept. 226/2 The plant [sc. Orchis mascula] is still called ‘Bloody Men's Fingers’ by the peasantry in the neighbourhood of Cheltenham.

1878 Notes & Queries 10 Aug. 105/1 Bloodyman's fingers, the flower of the foxglove (Digitalis purpurea).

1884 H. Friend Flowers & Flower Lore (ed. 2) 484 I am almost afraid to mention the Arum, seeing its aliases are so many... It is sometimes called Bloody-man's Finger.

1911 C. M. Skinner Myths & Legends Flowers 52 When these flowers convert to red berries, and the hood that covered them disappears, we see why the plant gained the name of ‘bloody men's fingers’.

1913 E. M. Wright Rustic Speech & Folk-lore 7 The foxglove is called:..witches' thimbles, bloody man's fingers, dead man's bells, [etc.].

2009 Jrnl. Ecol. 97 374/1 More ominous folk names given to O. mascula are ‘Gethsemane’, ‘king's fingers’, ‘bloody man's fingers’ and ‘dead man's thumbs’ because the leaves have red markings which look like drops of blood.

bloody twig n. now historical and rare the common dogwood, Cornus sanguinea, which has bare red stems in winter.

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dogberry1551

prick tree1551

hound's-berry1578

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prick-timber tree1578

dwarf honeysuckle1597

dogwood1598

sanguine-rod1601

prickwood1691

bloody twig1759

rose willow1798

red osier1807

swamp dogwood1817

stone-berry?1838

bunch-berry1845

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silky cornel1848

silky dogwood1900

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1759 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (ed. 7) at Cornus This is the Cornus fœmina... Female Dogwood, and the Virga Sanguinea. Matth. Bloody Twig.

1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. III. 108 The branches were so red, so like twigs of coral, that..its name of Bloody Twig..seemed appropriate.

1914 S. Kaye-Smith Three Furlongers i. iv. 45 But if ever he found a sudden splash of bryony in the hedge, or a flush of bloody-twig, or honeysuckle, or nuts, he wanted to pick them for her.

1985 J. Addison Illustr. Plant Lore 87 One of its [sc. dogwood's] alternative names..was bloody twig; others are wild cornel, dog-berry, hound's-tree and gaten-tree.

bloody warrior n. chiefly English regional (south-western) (now rare) a dark red variety of the European wallflower, Erysimum cheiri.

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1784 M. Dawes Stuckey’s Vanity Human Knowl. 17 The drooping lilly bows its head and dies, The showy tulips bending in a row, And bloody warriors sink beneath the foe.

1887 C. M. Yonge Herb of Field (rev. ed.) xv. 106 There are..none so noble-looking as the old-fashioned bloody-warrior, his head nodding with the weight of its numerous dark double blossoms.

1902 Westm. Budget 2 May 14/2 Nearly every cottage garden in the villages round about Wells had its patch of ‘bloody warriors’ when I was a boy.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	bloody
释义	bloodyadj.n.adv. Brit. /ˈblʌdi/, U.S. /ˈblədi/ Forms: Old English blodeg, Old English blodg- (inflected form), Old English blodig, Old English–Middle English blodi, Middle English blode, Middle English bloide, Middle English bloode, Middle English bludi, Middle English–1500s blodye, Middle English–1500s bludy, Middle English–1600s blodie, Middle English–1600s blody, Middle English–1600s bloudy, Middle English– bloody, 1500s–1600s bloddy, 1500s–1600s blooddie, 1500s–1600s blooddy, 1500s–1600s bloodie, 1500s–1600s blouddie, 1500s–1600s bloudie, 1500s–1600s bluddie, 1500s–1600s 1900s (regional and nonstandard)– bluddy, 1600s bluddi, 1900s– ber-lady (nonstandard), 1900s– bluidy (Irish English (northern)); English regional 1700s bleady (north-western), 1800s bliddy (south-western), 1900s– blouddy (Yorkshire); Scottish pre-1700 blodi, pre-1700 blodie, pre-1700 blody, pre-1700 bloudie, pre-1700 bloudy, pre-1700 bluddie, pre-1700 bluddy, pre-1700 bludy, pre-1700 1700s–1800s bludie, pre-1700 1700s–1800s bluidie, pre-1700 1700s– bluidy, 1700s– bleedy (north-eastern), 1700s– bloody, 1800s bludey, 1900s– bleedie, 1900s– bliddie, 1900s– bliddy. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian blōdich , Middle Dutch bloedich (Dutch bloedig ), Old Saxon blōdag , blōdig (Middle Low German blōdig ), Old High German bluotag , bluotīg (Middle High German bluotec , German blutig ), Old Icelandic blóðugr , blóðigr , Old Swedish blodhogher (Swedish blodig ), Old Danish blothug (Danish blodig ) < the Germanic base of blood n. + the Germanic base of -y suffix¹.The origin of the intensifying use of the adjective (sense A. 8) and adverb (sense C. 2) is uncertain and disputed. It has been suggested that this usage derives from oaths referring to the blood of Christ (compare Christ's blood!, God's blood! at blood n. 6, 'Sblood n.), although this seems unlikely given firstly that none of these interjections is recorded in intensive use themselves, and secondly that a functional shift from interjection to intensifier would be highly unusual. (Although compare woundy adv., woundy adj.²) Similar difficulties are encountered by the suggestion that bloody shows either a reduced form of, or a euphemistic alteration of, byrlady int. (see quot. 1711 at waistcoat n. 1b for an example that is often said to show this, but apparently without any early textual authority). It has been argued that intensifying use originated with the phrase bloody drunk , which provides the earliest evidence of adverbial use of bloody in this use (compare quot. 1676 at sense C. 2a) and is relatively common in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Various attempts have been made to explain this phrase, including derivation from blood n. 15a, with allusion to the drinking habits of aristocratic rowdies of the 17th cent., a formation which would be comparable to drunk (also merry, tipsy) as a lord at lord n. and int. Phrases 3d, although no parallel phrase with blood n. is attested to support this hypothesis. Alternatively, it has been suggested that bloody drunk reflects attitudes to the Catholic dogma of transubstantiation (which dictates that consecrated wine is substantially transformed into the blood of Christ in the Eucharist) and the drinking habits of priests during the Reformation: see further S. Biscetti in Eng. Hist. Linguistics 2006 (2008) II. 53–74. Compare the following earlier use of bloody drunk in the literal sense ‘drunk on blood’, with reference to the persecution of heretics by Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London under Mary I, who was known from at least the mid 16th cent. as ‘Bloody Bonner’ (see 1563 at sense A. 4a) and is characterized in this text as a rapacious wolf:1569 T. Knell Epit. Boner sig. A.iiij Not drunk wt wine..But bloody drunk sith hee not one, did spare of Christes sheep.The word bloody does seem to be used especially often in this period with derogatory reference to Catholic individuals, practices, and beliefs, and it seems likely that this may in part reflect association with (and aversion to) the doctrine of transubstantiation among Protestants. However, the adjective is attested a century before the adverb as an intensifier (sense A. 8), which would appear to suggest the following different course of development. The collocation bloody whore in quot. c1540 at sense A. 8a(a) may echo use of this phrase with reference to the Whore of Babylon (where literal bloodshed is clearly alluded to: compare Revelation 17:6, 18:24), although there is no implication of literal bloodshed in the use in this quot. (see also quot. 1545 at sense A. 4a). In many cases in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, especially where the adjective modifies a derogatory word for a person (e.g. bloody villain, bloody murderer, bloody thief, etc.), it is unclear whether bloody refers to real blood, bloodshed, or bloodthirstiness, or is an intensifier. It seems likely that the intensifying uses of bloody arose from semantic bleaching in formations of this type. Compare, with similar semantic development, Middle French sanglant covered with blood (c1100 in Old French), hateful, despicable, (as an extreme intensifier and pejorative) accursed, damned (both mid 14th cent.; also 15th cent. in various imprecatory formulae). A. adj. 1. a. Containing blood; composed or consisting of blood; resembling blood. Also in figurative contexts. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood > [adjective] bloodyeOE sanguine1447 blood-likea1500 bloodish1530 crimson1560 sanguineous1646 sanguiferous1682 sanguinary1684 sanguinous1833 haemal1839 haematoid1840 haematic1854 haematogenic1876 haematogenous1880 haematal1886 eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) ii. xvii. 198 His micgge bið blodread swilce hio blodig sie. OE Crist III 1174 Ða wearð beam monig blodigum tearum birunnen under rindum, reade ond þicce; sæp wearð to swate. OE Antwerp Gloss. (1955) 60 Dissenteria, blodig utsiht. a1250 Lofsong Lefdi (Nero) in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 207 Ich bide þe..bi his blodie swote,..bi his blodi Rune þet ron inne monie studen. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 13714 Stræhten after stretes blodie stremes. ?c1335 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 93 Þin eiine blodi teris wepe. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. v. xxi. 208 Þe tonge is a substaunce fleischely and bloody [L. sanguinea]. a1475 Diseases Hawk (Harl. 2340) f. 25^v Gyfe hir no blody mete bot wasch hir mete..And wryng owte all þe bloode. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. XXXiiii In greate agony he swet blody dropes. 1585 J. Banister Wecker's Compend. Chyrurg. i. 89 But if your proceeding hitherto be free, & withe out any interruption of bloudie fluxions, then go on to fill the wounde. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 550 Those which are molested with corrupt and bloody spettings with retchings. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iv. ii. 211 Slaues, that take their [sc. kings'] humors for a warrant, To breake within the bloody house of life. View more context for this quotation a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1683) v. 113 In Hawks and Cormorants I have sometimes observed bloody excretions. 1703 T. Gibson Anat. Humane Bodies Epitomized (ed. 6) iii. iii. 575 Which Pith is called Diploe, and is a spongie and cavernous substance containing a medullar and somewhat bloody juice for the nourishment of the Skull. 1794 B. Humpage Physiol. Res. Animal Œconomy 99 We frequently may observe in putrid fevers, blood discharged from the eyes, nose, ears, mouth, a diarrhœa, bloody urine, bloody discharge from blisters. 1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV cxlii. 74 Here, where Murder breathed her bloody steam. 1845 Lancet 11 Jan. 35/1 Many of the children were affected with bloody diarrhœa. 1875 B. W. Richardson Dis. Mod. Life 15 The phenomenon called, in early times, ‘bloody sweat’, has been disputed. 1911 Grocer's Encycl. at Kosher If the animal is pronounced Kosher, the meat undergoes the next operation of Porging—the removal of all bloody veins and gristle. 1968 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 28 Mar. 744/1 She was found to be in acute respiratory distress, gasping for air, cyanotic and producing bloody sputum. 1996 Time Out N.Y. 4 Sept. 119/1 Ask for your steak cooked Pittsburgh , which means char-red: blackened outside, the meat within just touched by flame, pink and bloody. 2001 R. S. Neiman & A. Orazi in D. M. Knowles Neoplastic Hematopathol. (ed. 2) liii. 1881/1 Because the spleen is by nature a bloody organ, attention to careful processing assumes greater importance than in many other organs. †b. Of an animal: = blooded adj. 4. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood > [adjective] > having bloody1608 sanguineous1646 blooded1834 haematose1865 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 10 Aristotle and Galen define a Serpent to be animal sanguineum pedibus orbatum & oviparum, that is, a bloody Beast without feete, yet laying eggs. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια v. 323 For the perpetuall generation of vitall spirits in bloody Creatures there is required great abundance of aer, which can onely be supplied by Respiration. 1683 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Two Disc. Soul of Brutes i. iii. 13 After the bloodless Brutes, their second Class, and of a little higher degree, is that of the more cold bloody Creatures. †c. Relating to blood. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1716 M. Davies Diss. Physick 4 in Athenæ Britannicæ III Cæsalpinus had a proper Opportunity to speak at large of that Bloody discovery [i.e. of the circulation of the blood]. 2. Covered, smeared, or stained with blood; bleeding. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [adjective] > of blood > bleeding bloodyOE bleedinga1250 railinga1470 sanguinolent1598 sanguifluous1684 haemorrhagious1753 weltering1816 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [adjective] > stained > stained or smeared with blood redOE bloodyOE drearyOE weta1300 bloodedc1300 bleedingc1305 forbled1387 gory?a1500 cruent1524 purpled1561 brued1563 beweltered1565 bloodied1566 beblubbered1582 purple1590 bloodstained1594 ensanguined1628 blood-bedabbled1629 cruentous1648 cruentate1661 begored1683 sanguined1700 bluggy1876 OE Beowulf (2008) 2440 Hæðcyn..miste mercelses ond his mæg ofscet, broðor oðerne blodigan gare. lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1117 On þære nihte..wearð se mona lange nihtes swylce he eall blodig wære & syððan aðistrode. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 13382 Þer me iseon mihte..men to-swelten, blodie [c1300 Otho blodede] ueldes. c1325 (?a1200) Leges Quatuor Burgorum (Ayr) lxxxii, in Acts Parl. Scotl. (1844) I. 349/1 Si quis verberando fecerit aliquem blaa et blodi. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 6362 Here is þat knif al blodi þat ich broȝte him wiþ of dawe. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iii. l. 1400 This Leoun..A beste..Hath slain, and with his blodi snoute [etc.]. c1440 Second Hymn to Jesus (Thornton) in G. G. Perry Relig. Pieces in Prose & Verse (1914) 94 His bludy woundes was reuthe to see. c1475 (c1450) P. Idley Instr. to his Son (Cambr.) (1935) ii. A l. 698 (MED) Who hath beeten thy childe and made hym so blodye? 1530–1 Act 22 Hen. VIII c. 12 To be beten with whippes..tyll his body be blody. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. vii. 21 The one in hand an yron whip did strayne, The other brandished a bloudy knife. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) ii. v. 71 My Teares shall wipe away these bloody markes. View more context for this quotation 1656 H. More Antidote Atheism (1662) iii. ix. 117 Dirty bloody spots. 1713 J. Addison Cato iii. i. 41 Let 'em each be..impaled, and left To writhe at leisure round the bloody Stake. 1757 T. Gray Ode II i. iii, in Odes 15 Weave with bloody hands the tissue of thy line. 1800 W. Windham Speeches Parl. (1812) I. 336 That scuffle, amongst Englishmen, would have terminated in a black eye or a bloody nose. 1881 Decatur (Illinois) Daily Rev. 28 July There was a bit of a skirmish..which resulted in a bloody lip to one of the contestants. 1900 A. M. Earle Stage-coach & Tavern Days viii. 179 The British commander..stirred his glass of brandy with his bloody finger. 1957 L. E. Pearson Elizabethans at Home viii. 550 A man who carried in his hand the bloody sword with which the boar had been slain. 2002 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 18 May l3 He staggered home from the pub with a bloody nose. 3. Of the colour of blood, blood-red.In quot. 1943 probably used punningly with allusion to senses A. 4a and A. 8a. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [adjective] > deep red or crimson blood-redeOE purpleOE bloodyOE purpurine1300 sanguinea1382 tuly1398 crimsonc1400 murreyc1400 purpurec1400 sanguinolentc1450 cramoisy1480 ruby-redc1487 rubya1500 sanguineousc1520 sanguine-coloured1552 blood-coloured1567 rubine1576 purple-red1578 rubied?1594 incarnadine1605 Tyrian?1614 rubiousa1616 murrey-coloured1657 haematine1658 vinaceous1688 carmine1737 claret-coloured1779 ensanguined1785 peony1810 sanguinaceous1816 gory1822 crimsony1830 vinous1834 laky1849 grenat1851 madder1852 wine-dark1855 pigeon's blood1870 poppy crimson1879 claret1882 vinous1894 alizarin1923 wine1950 OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.i) anno 979 Þy ilcan geare wæs gesewen blodig wolcen on oftsiðas on fyres gelicnesse. OE Prognostics (Tiber.) (2007) 314 Lunam sanguinem [read sanguineam] uideri[t], damnum significat : monan blodigne gesihð hearm getacnað. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. l. 2310 (MED) With blody hewe Þe platis briȝt wern of newe steyned. c1450 J. Metham Physiognomy in Wks. (1916) 128 Qwydyr the balle off the ye be off blody coloure, or pale. a1550 ( G. Ripley Compend of Alchemy (Bodl. e Mus.) f. 63^v After all these [colors] shall then appere ye blody red invariable. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) ii. iv. 61 Yorke. Now Somerset, where is your argument? Som. Here in my Scabbard..that Shall dye your white Rose in a bloody red. View more context for this quotation 1671 London Gaz. No. 627/4 A Bloody Bay Gelding,..was stollen out of Stamford Fields. 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. i. vii. 42 A Face all pale with Powder, and a Shirt all bloody with Ribbons. View more context for this quotation 1755 Gentleman's Mag. June 280/1 An anchor was immediately dropped, and a red buoy (called the bloody buoy) fixed to it. 1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere ii, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 13 The bloody sun at noon, Right up above the mast did stand. 1823 J. G. Lockhart Moor Cal. in Anc. Spanish Ballads iv His banner..Whereon revealed his bloody field its pale and crescent moon. 1871 E. H. Moore Lost Life xvii. 196 A deathly white face, with two calm, unflinching eyes gazing straight up to him, and a line of bloody red across the fair cheek. 1912 Mrs. P. Campbell Let. Aug. in Bernard Shaw & Mrs. P. Campbell (1952) 35 The scullery maids..with their bloody nails and sealing-wax lips make my hair stand on end. 1943 Life 16 Apr. 75/3 Till..the Japanese bloody sun And Benito's flags are shot to rags,—And we know that our war job's done. 2010 L. Bickle Embers xvi. 284 A broad sweep of reds and pinks. It reminded Anya of a bloody sunset she'd seen on a news-reel after Chernobyl. 4. a. Of a person or animal: addicted to bloodshed, bloodthirsty; cruel. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > bloodthirstiness > [adjective] bloodyeOE bloodlyc1425 bloodthirsty1539 bloody-minded?1545 cannibal1555 blood-thirsting?1569 sanguinolent1577 blood-drinking1594 cannibalian1602 sword-minded1603 sanguisugous1615 sanguinary1623 sanguinarian1637 sanguinarious1654 sanguinous1663 sanguine1705 cannibalic?1795 cannibalish1796 cannibalistic1827 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > fierceness > bloodthirstiness > [adjective] bloodyeOE bloodthirsty1539 bloody-minded?1545 cannibal1555 blood-thirsting?1569 bloodly1574 sanguinolent1577 blood-drinking1594 cannibalian1602 sword-minded1603 sanguisugous1615 sanguinary1623 sanguinarian1637 sanguinarious1654 sanguinous1663 sanguine1705 cannibalic?1795 cannibalish1796 cannibalistic1827 faggoty-minded1856 eOE Metrical Dialogue of Solomon & Saturn (Corpus Cambr. 422) ii. 472 Engla dryhten..him helle gescop,..in sende..atol deor monig.., blodige earnas and blace nædran. OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 304 Ða blodigan weras and ða þe willað facn, ne sceolan hi libban heora dagas healfe. Ða synd blodige weras ðe wyrcað manslihtas. ?a1440 Hortus Vocab. in Trans. Bristol & Gloucs. Archaeol. Soc. (1923) 45 271 (MED) Cruentatus, blody or lef to schede blod. 1545 G. Joye Expos. Daniel (v.) f. 65 Making them dronken of that Babyloni blody whores cup of abhominacion. 1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1254/2 They reporte me to seke bloud, and call me bloudye Boner. ?1577 J. Northbrooke Spiritus est Vicarius Christi: Treat. Dicing 143 Howe the blouddie Papistes murther and slaughter in all places rounde aboute vs oure poore brethren. 1654 J. Rogers Sagrir (new ed.) iii. 81 Which Tyranny and accursed cruelty of theirs is condemned by bloody Queen Mary her selfe. 1681 Addr. from Radnor in London Gaz. No. 1671/4 The Factious Schismaticks, and Bloody Romanists. 1726 J. Barker Lining of Patch-work Screen 63 He look'd upon her as a bloody and a hateful Monster, never to be forgiven by God or Man. 1795 W. Windham Speeches Parl. (1812) I. 278 The administration of the bloody Robespierre. 1813 J. W. Campbell Hist. Virginia xi. 151 The end of this bloody warrior corresponded with his life... He was murdered. 1854 C. Dickens Child's Hist. Eng. III. xxx. 96 As Bloody Queen Mary, she will ever be justly remembered with horror and detestation. 1883 Cent. Mag. Jan. 434/2 One account says that he was a wild and bloody religionist. 1927 L. F. Abbott Twelve Great Modernists iii. 65 Henry VIII..—the king whom in youth he had admired as a liberal and who had now become a bloody despot. 1973 Rotarian Nov. 15 Red China is ruled by a bloody tyrant, who holds absolute power over his subjects. 2004 D. A. Pfeiffer End of Oil Age ix. 100 We hear that Chavez is a bloody dictator, but we do not hear how he has been duly elected by a large majority of Venezuelans. b. Of a history, reputation, etc.: marked or tainted by brutality and bloodshed; characterized by violence, carnage, etc. ΚΠ 1569 W. Samuel Abridgem. Olde Test.: Esther iii. sig. M.ii^v Wanting glory to his wil, he sought a bloody fame. 1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxviii. i. 325 From the exquisite narration of this bloudie hystorie, feare might justly pull me backe. 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 423 The Battell is not to the strong;..the bloody Chronicles of Battells fought unequally, and won by the weakest will confirm it. 1725 R. Hurst Rom. Maid iii. vi. 45 With what Horror will Posterity Peruse thy bloody Annals? 1764 H. Walpole Castle of Otranto v. 196 May this bloody record be a warning to future tyrants! 1838 Amer. Biblical Repository Oct. 299 The long and bloody history of their contests with the Roman and Byzantine legions now commenced. 1872 R. G. McClellan Golden State xxxv. 606 His stone-axe, poison-arrow, and bloody record proclaim for a brief period his fierce career. 1910 H. S. Johnson Williams on Service vii. 77 Certainly no one was entirely safe from the machinations of Katipunan, that mysterious secret society of bloody fame. 1945 Berkshire County Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.) 2 May 9/1 One by one the heirs presumptive to Hitler's bloody mantle have faded from the German scene. 1999 M. Bassin Imperial Visions vi. 204 The nationalist Semenov strove to disassociate his own country from the brutal and bloody legacy left by the Europeans in the non-European world. 2007 Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville) (Nexis) 14 Aug. b7 The officers' time would have been better spent going after the thugs who are giving our city its bloody reputation. 5. a. Of a battle, conflict, war, etc.: attended with much bloodshed and slaughter; sanguinary. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [adjective] > characteristic of slaughter bloodyeOE gory1586 sanguineous1612 sanguinary1625 cruentous1648 eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 128 Cruda, þa blodgan. [L. patiens discrimina cruda duelli.] 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. 1 The horribill batellis and the bludy harmes..of Romanis. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xlviii. 100 A bitter and a bloudie conflict. 1623 J. Taylor New Discouery by Sea sig. B The bloudy fight endur'd at least sixe houres. 1678 N. Wanley Wonders Little World v. i. §102. 468/2 That long and bloody War in the Empire of Germany. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 70. ¶4 The Poet..describes a bloody Battle and dreadful Scene of Death. 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. xlix. 143 After a bloody conflict of eight years.., the relics of the nation submitted. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 227 The most bloody day of the whole war. 1879 Scribner's Monthly Nov. 5/2 A grand festival..in celebration of the eighth anniversary of the bloody revolution of March 18th, 1871. 1911 O. D. Skelton Socialism ix. 225 Bloody fighting which left thousands dead. 1960 L. I. Perrigo Our Spanish Southwest iii. 43/2 At Santa Fe the soldiers fought two bloody battles with the besieging force. 2000 Nation (N.Y.) 28 Feb. 16/1 Khatami must worry that however bloody his battles with the orthodox ulema, he will have trouble riding the tiger he has helped unleash. 2006 Daily Tel. 21 June 13/1 The hurricane-ravaged city struggled to quell a fast-rising and bloody crime wave. b. Of an act, deed, or practice: accompanied by or involving the flowing or spilling of blood. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [adjective] > of blood > bleeding > involving flowing of blood bloodya1413 a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) v. l. 1759 Þey mette With blody strokes. c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1879) l. 1388 Or hadde in armys manye a blodi box. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 199/1 Blody mensyn sickenesse. 1548 H. Latimer Notable Serm. sig. D.i^v Christe..draweth sowles vnto hym by hys bloudy sacrifice. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. iv. 22 Is't known who did this more then bloody deed? View more context for this quotation a1653 Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 155 Our bloody blowes assuredly he feeles. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa V. xv. 162 While I was meditating a simple robbery, here have I..been guilty of murder! A bloody murder! 1764 T. Bridges Homer Travestie II. v. 27 This phantom in the battle stood..yet the de'el a soul could wound it, Though bloody blows were struck around it. 1828 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. 1 124 Their bloody idolatry, and stormful untutored energy. 1879 Scribner's Monthly Nov. 105/1 She ruled with majesty and wisdom, sometimes a decreer of bloody justice, sometimes an Amazonian counselor of warriors. 1906 J. P. Mahaffy Silver Age of Greek World ix. 220 The Essenes objected on principle..to bloody sacrifices. 1956 Life 16 Apr. 103/3 Max Baer steps back in to the ring and administered a movie version of the same bloody punishment. 2007 B. Eisler Requiem for Assassin xxv. 232 The fright of witnessing a bloody murder not ten steps from where he stood. 6. Of thoughts, words, etc.: concerned with, portending, or decreeing bloodshed; (of a sound) martial, warlike. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > bloodthirstiness > [adjective] > concerned with bloody?c1225 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > fierceness > bloodthirstiness > [adjective] > concerned with bloody?c1225 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 213 Ruben þu reade þocht þublodi delit. c1300 Life & Martyrdom Thomas Becket (Harl. 2277) (1845) l. 537 Alto blodi was that word, and deore hit was ibouȝt, For therfore to dethe he was atte laste ibrouȝt. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iii. l. 848 (MED) Þervppon was sette al his delit, Þat in his mortal blody appetit..he hadde hym slaw anon. c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame (Fairf. 16) (1878) l. 1239 That maken blody soun In trumpe beme, and claryoun. a1500 (?c1440) J. Lydgate Horse, Goose & Sheep (Lansd.) l. 219 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 548 (MED) Whan thei [sc. war-horses] of trumpetis her the blody soun. 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. Pref. Without hearyng the cause bloody sentences are pronounced against it. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iv. i. 220 I do begin to haue bloody thoughts. View more context for this quotation 1660 in E. Nicholas Nicholas Papers (1920) IV. 198 From Kent I have an accompt that ye sectaryes are very bold and bloody in theire discourses. 1700 T. Betterton Henry IV, Part i i. iii. 9 Affrighted with their Bloody looks, [they] Ran fearfully among the trembling Reeds. 1771 ‘M. A. Porny’ Elements Heraldry (ed. 2) iii. 23 A print of the bloody Warrant for the execution of K. Charles I. 1815 Examiner 1 Jan. 5/2 The assassin, having failed in the execution of his bloody design, effected his escape. 1858 Harper's Mag. Mar. 515/1 Skeletons sit at every banquet; bloody secrets lie in coffers, fast locked until Death shall unshoot the bolt. 1906 C. M. Doughty Dawn in Brit. I. i. 26 Heremod, who..cometh on, with bright dart, And bloody intent. 1969 L. Litwak Waiting for News xiii. 87 He wanted the exterminators exterminated. He didn't mute his bloody wishes. 2008 S. Brunk Posthumous Career Emiliano Zapata iii. 84 Stories of Zapata's sexual conquests..and his bloody threats persisted as elements of his myth. †7. Allied by blood. Obsolete.In c1400 with reference to the blood of Christ. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > [adjective] > by blood-relationship fleshlyc900 bloodyc1390 carnal1490 akinc1515 natural?1515 native1567 consanguine1613 consanguineousa1616 consanguineal1795 consanguinean1827 biological1926 c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. vii. 196 (MED) Heo beoþ my blodi breþeren, for god bouȝte vs alle. [Also B. vi. 10; xi. 195; C. ix. 17.] c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xi. l. 195 (MED) Alle are we..bretheren as of o blode..For on caluarye..blody bretheren we bycome. 8. colloquial. a. (a) As an intensifier: absolute, downright, utter. Formerly sometimes in a negative sense: awful, terrible. More recently also as a mere filler, with little or no intensifying force (although generally implying some element of dislike, frustration, etc., on the part of the speaker). Cf. sense C. 2a.For a discussion of the possible origin of this sense and its adverbial counterpart see note in etymology.This word has long had taboo status, and for many speakers constituted the strongest expletive available. This is reflected in the regularity with which dashes, asterisks, etc., were formerly used to represent the word in print, and in the large number of euphemistic forms to which it has given rise, including bee n.⁴, bleeding adj. 5, blerry adj., plurry adj., sanguinary adj. 4, and perhaps blooming adj. 4. In the case of the adverb, the considerable public reaction to the utterance of the word on the London stage in George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion in 1914 (see quot. 1914 at sense C. 2b) gave rise to the further humorous euphemism Pygmalion adv. In most contexts the word's taboo status has now been largely or entirely lost; the process of normalization seems to have begun earliest in Australia.Following the original use in England, Scotland, and Ireland, the sense spread to most other parts of the English-speaking world, with the notable exception of the United States, where it has apparently only ever achieved limited currency, e.g. among sailors during the 19th cent.bloody hell: see hell int. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > state of being accursed > [adjective] > as everyday imprecation stinking?c1225 misbegetc1325 banned1340 cursefula1382 wariablea1382 cursedc1386 biccheda1400 maledighta1400 vilea1400 accursedc1400 whoresona1450 remauldit?1473 execrable1490 infamous1490 unbicheda1500 jolly1534 bloodyc1540 mangy?1548 pagan1550 damned1563 misbegotten1571 putid1580 desperate1581 excremental1591 inexecrable?1594 sacred1594 putrid1628 sad1664 blasted1682 plagued1728 damnation1757 infernal1764 damn1775 pesky1775 deuced1782 shocking1798 blessed1806 darned1815 dinged1821 anointed1823 goldarn1830 darn1835 cussed1837 blamed1840 unholy1842 verdomde1850 bleeding1858 ghastly1860 goddam1861 blankety1872 blame1876 bastard1877 God-awful1877 dashed1881 sodding1881 bally1885 ungodly1887 blazing1888 dee1889 motherfucking1890 blistering1900 plurry1900 Christly1910 blinking1914 blethering1915 blighted1915 blighting1916 soddish1922 somethinged1922 effing1929 Jesus1929 dagnab1934 bastarding1944 Christless1947 mother-loving1948 mothering1951 pussyclaat1957 mother-grabbing1959 pigging1970 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > utter or absolute shirea1225 purec1300 properc1380 plainc1395 cleana1400 fine?a1400 entirec1400 veryc1400 starka1425 utterc1430 utterlyc1440 merec1443 absolute1531 outright1532 cleara1535 bloodyc1540 unproachable1544 flat1553 downright1577 sheer1583 right-down?1586 single1590 peremptory1601 perfecta1616 downa1625 implicit1625 every way1628 blank1637 out-and-outa1642 errant1644 inaccessional1651 thorough-paced1651 even down1654 dead1660 double-dyed1667 through stitch1681 through-stitched1682 total1702 thoroughgoing1719 thorough-sped1730 regular1740 plumb1748 hollow1751 unextenuated1765 unmitigated1783 stick, stock, stone dead1796 positive1802 rank1809 heart-whole1823 skire1825 solid1830 fair1835 teetotal1840 bodacious1845 raw1856 literal1857 resounding1873 roaring1884 all out1893 fucking1893 pink1896 twenty-four carat1900 grand slam1915 stone1928 diabolical1933 fricking1937 righteous1940 fecking1952 raving1954 c1540 in J. H. Forbes Liber Officialis Sancti Andree (1845) 139 Sayand and allegand ȝow ane commown bluidy huir. 1669 J. Dryden Wild Gallant i. 3 In short, I was drunk; damnably drunk with Ale; great Hogen Mogen bloody Ale: I was porterly drunk. 1681 T. Otway Souldiers Fortune iii. i. 30 He has been a bloody Cuckold-making Scoundrel in his time. 1699 G. Farquhar Love & Bottle iii. ii. 37 Was your Worship then Turk or Jew before?—I knew he was some damn'd bloody Dog. 1726 A. Smith Mem. Jonathan Wild 132 Oh! You bloody B—ch..is this all the Money you have about you? 1735 C. Coffey Merry Cobler ix. 26 Nell. Oh! 'tis Sir John , 'tis Sir John ; and he'll trounce you for this. Job. Sir John , you bloody Whore? I'll Sir John him; do you think to fob me off so? Strumpet. 1783 Proc. Old Bailey 15 Jan. 140/1 She said..as I had compounded felony with her, if she went to bloody Newgate, I should go with her. 1824 Fatal Effects of Gambling 489 [He] added, ‘I was a bl—y fool to go all the way to my friend Harper, at Norwich, to borrow that air-gun.’ 1835 Adams Sentinel (Gettysburg , Pa.) 30 Mar. The Captain downed the certificate, and says he, ‘there's black and white against ye, you bloody old sculpen.’ 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xx. 61 They've got a man for a mate of that ship, and not a bloody sheep about decks! 1846 L. W. Miller Notes Exile Van Dieman's Land 328 We found a convict overseer... His first salutation was ‘Now you bloody new chum—! I have you!’ 1889 Sunday Mag. Nov. 771/2 What is the bloody use of a bloody man saying the bloody word ‘bloody’ every bloody time he opens his bloody mouth? 1894 G. Moore Esther Waters xxxix. 302 All bloody rot; who says I'm drunk? 1912 K. Bellew Short Stories 51 I've allers drunk at this bloody pub, and I ain't a-goin' to shift down to that bloody shanty anyway. 1927 A. Crombie After Sixty Years 142 Although the word ‘bloody’ may have been more frequently in use 50 years ago than it is to-day, the man of the West used it in the same sense as the Johnnie used the words, jolly, or consummate. The bush adjective was neither obscene nor profane. 1957 M. Savill tr. H. Böll Unguarded House xv. 210 As he crossed the courtyard he heard the joiner say: ‘The chap's a bloody disgrace.’ 1995 N. Whittaker Platform Souls (1996) xxxiii. 244 ‘Four bloody quid!’ he seethes. 2010 P. O'Grady Devil rides Out vi. 110 I've seen her sit up all night nursing a child who was having a severe asthma attack when she should have been off-duty... The woman was a bloody legend. (b) Inserted between components of a collocation or phrase which are not normally separated. Cf. sense C. 2b. ΚΠ 1866 W. H. Thomes Bushrangers 212 I will not turn traitor even to save my life. I should despise my bloody self if I did. 1917 E. L. G. Watson Mainland iv. 111 Some swipes have all the bloody luck! 1950 G. Wilson Brave Company v. 83 Thrilling? Hell's bloody bells! 2005 M. Cerasini Veto Power 92 Who's Shamus Lynch think he is, the Prince of bloody Wales? b. British. Chiefly in predicative use. Bad, unpleasant, objectionable, deplorable; perverse, unreasonable, difficult. Cf. bloody-minded adj. 2. Now somewhat dated. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > [adjective] > unpleasant loatha700 unsweetc890 grimlyc893 unquemeOE un-i-quemeOE evila1131 sourc1175 illc1220 unhightlyc1275 unwelcomec1325 unblithec1330 unnetc1330 unrekena1350 unagreeablec1374 uncouthc1380 unsavouryc1380 displeasantc1386 unlikinga1398 ungaina1400 crabbedc1400 unlovelyc1400 displeasing1401 eschewc1420 unsoot1420 mislikinga1425 unlikelya1425 unlustya1425 fastidiousc1425 unpleasantc1430 displicable1471 unthankfulc1475 displeasant1481 uneasy1483 unpleasinga1500 unfaring1513 badc1530 malpleasant?1533 noisome1542 thanklessa1547 ungrate1548 untoothsome1548 ungreeable1550 contrary1561 disagreeable1570 offensible1575 offensive1576 naughty1578 delightlessa1586 undelightful1585 unwisheda1586 unpleasurable1587 undelightsomec1595 dislikeful1596 disliking1596 ungrateful1596 unsweet?a1600 distastive1600 impleasing1602 distasting1603 distasteful1607 unsightly1608 undelectable1610 disgustful1611 unrelishing1611 waspisha1616 undeliciousa1618 unwished-for1617 disrelishing1631 unenjoyed1643 unjoyous1645 mirya1652 unwelcomed1651 unpleasivea1656 sweet1656 injucund1657 insuave1657 unpalatable1658 unhandsome1660 undesirable1667 disrelishablea1670 uncouthsome1684 shocking1703 nasty1705 embittering1746 indelectable1751 undelightinga1774 nice and ——1796 unenjoyablea1797 ungenial1796 uncomplacent1805 ungracious1807 bitter1810 rotten1813 uncongenial1813 quarrelsome1825 grimy1833 nice1836 unrelished1863 bloody1867 unbewitching1876 ferocious1877 displeasurable1879 rebarbative1892 charming1893 crook1898 naar1900 peppery1901 negative1902 poisonous1906 off-putting1935 unsympathetic1937 piggy1942 funky1946 umpty1948 pooey1967 minging1970 Scrooge-like1976 sucky1984 stank1991 stanky1991 1867 W. Allingham Diary 14 Oct. (1990) 150 R[ossetti] and I walking back take wrong turn—‘This is bl—y!’ He is very fond of this expletive. 1913 R. Brooke Let. 17 Sept. (1968) 511 That note-book... I lost it in British Columbia—yessir, isn't it too bloody. 1936 R. Lehmann Weather in Streets ii. 48 He developed my nastiness from a mere seed into a great jungle. He made me so mean and bloody... Well, I just am a bloody character, I suppose. 1954 A. Heckstall-Smith Eighteen Months xiii. 164 Why go out of your way to be bloody about Archie when I'm trying to help him? 1990 Accountancy Mar. 189/4 I must admit though I felt absolutely bloody after the first day—I was so unfit. 2005 J. Clanchy Vincenzo's Garden 146 If Kate hadn't been so bloody about everything, I might have given in. 9. English regional. Of good stock, well descended. rare. ΚΠ 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. He comes of a bloody stock; that's why he's good to poor folks. 1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. 13/2 A neyce sharp blouddy little hoss. B. n. †1. That which is bloody (in quot.: spec. that which contains blood). (In Old English in partitive genitive singular as postmodifier.) Obsolete. ΚΠ OE Confessionale Pseudo-Egberti (Junius) 191 Gyf man owiht blodiges ðicges [read ðicge] in healfsodenum mete [L. semicoctum comederit], gyf he hit ne wite, fæste vii dagas. 2. An utterance of the word ‘bloody’ as an expletive or intensifier. ΚΠ 1896 R. Kipling in McClure's Mag. Sept. 291 'E learns to drop the ‘bloodies’ from every word he slings. 1937 Austral. Q. Sept. 76 Peppered with hells and bloodies..the men tell of their adventures. 1967 D. Pinner Ritual xiv. 139 His Chief continued to rant his way through another dozen ‘bloodies’. 1981 B. Paulu Television & Radio in United Kingdom x. 187 One staff member defended the ‘bloodies’..not as lapses, but as justified in their context. 2002 Times Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 1 Feb. 21 While the occasional ‘bloody’ is acceptable,..anything meatier is off the linguistic menu. 3. A rowdy or foppish young man; = blood n. 15a. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > evil person > [noun] fiendc1220 shrewc1250 quedea1275 felon1340 malfeasorc1380 evil-doer1398 forfeiter1413 pucka1450 malefactor?c1450 wicked-doerc1450 improbe1484 wicked1484 Gomorrheana1529 dunghill1542 felonian1594 naughta1639 black sheep1640 pimp1649 hellicat1816 malfeasant1867 a bad sortc1869 bad seed1954 bloody1960 the mind > emotion > hatred > object of detestation (person or thing) > [noun] > loathsome or unpleasant person hateful1510 son of a ——?1576 son of a bitch1655 nuisance1661 obnoxity1851 oik1917 knob1920 putz1928 swipe1929 jack-off?1939 jagoff?1939 sumbitch1944 jerko1949 sonofa1950 bloody1960 weeny1964 dick1966 gross-out1966 wank1970 poison ivy1976 jerkwad1980 dickwad1983 dickweed1984 jerkweed1988 knob jockey1989 wankstain1990 ball sack1991 bawbag1999 dicksack1999 1960 D. Potter Glittering Coffin vii. 106 A few bloodys were provoked into their usual braying. 1986 Times Lit. Suppl. 16 May 527/1 Young bloodies whom Aldous Huxley, for one, saw across the quad with a shudder. 1990 I. Carter Anc. Cultures of Conceit v. 116 He is counterposed to the Master of Ballater, leader of his college's bloodies, aristocratic dining and hunting yahoos. 4. U.S. slang. = Bloody Mary n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > cocktail > [noun] > vodka cocktail Bloody Mary1939 Moscow mule1944 screwdriver1948 vodka martini1953 vodkatini1955 Black Russian1957 White Russian1965 bloody1967 vodka Collins1969 Bloody Caesar1972 vodka gimlet1974 kamikaze1979 Sex on the Beach1986 caipiroska1990 appletini1997 1967 E. Elisofon Jrnl. 31 Aug. in Java Diary (1969) 123 I bought six cans of tomato juice in Djakarta. They're reserved strictly for ‘Bloodies’, as Joan calls them—and today I need one. Cheers! 1974 Wall St. Jrnl. 15 Apr. 5 (advt.) Perfect for drinking bloodies on the porch in Southampton. 1985 E. Leonard Glitz xiv. 120 ‘You want another Bloody?’.. ‘You like my Bloodies?’ ‘You make a good one... I think I'll switch though, if you have scotch.’ 1999 C. B. O'Hara Bloody Mary ii. 15 The Bloody is the ultimate comfort drink. 2005 Daily Herald (Chicago) 3 Jan. 11/2 Thousands of parents and alumni are allowed to get sloshed on bloodies, beer, shots and screwdrivers. C. adv. †1. Bloodily; with blood. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood > [adverb] bloodyc1225 c1225 (?c1200) St. Margaret (Bodl.) (1934) 6 Ne let tu neaure mi sawle for-leosun wið þe forlorene..þe beoð al blodi bi-blodeget of sunne. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 24082 It es nu grisli on to sene, His bodi al blodi wat. a1400 Siege Jerusalem (Laud) (1932) l. 599 So was þe bent ouer-brad, blody by-runne. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 10424 Buernes on þe bent blody beronen. 1596 E. Spenser Faerie Queene (new ed.) ii. ii. sig. O3 He..Their sharpe assault right bloudy [1590 boldly] did rebut. 2. colloquial. a. As an intensifier, modifying an adjective or adverb: absolutely, completely, utterly. More recently also as a mere filler, with little or no intensifying force (although generally implying some element of dislike, frustration, etc., on the part of the speaker).For discussion of this sense and of the similar use of the adjective see sense A. 8a.bloody well: see well adv. and n.⁴ Phrases 1d. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > very tooc888 swith971 wellOE wellOE fullOE rightc1175 muchc1225 wellac1275 gainlya1375 endlyc1440 hard?1440 very1448 odda1500 great1535 jolly1549 fellc1600 veryvery1649 gooda1655 vastly1664 strange1667 bloody1676 ever so1686 heartily1727 real1771 precious1775 quarely1805 murry1818 très1819 freely1820 powerfula1822 gurt1824 almighty1830 heap1832 all-fired1833 gradely1850 real1856 bonny1857 heavens1858 veddy1859 canny1867 some1867 oh-so1881 storming1883 spanking1886 socking1896 hefty1898 velly1898 fair dinkum1904 plurry1907 Pygmalion1914 dinkum1915 beaucoup1918 dirty1920 molto1923 snorting1924 honking1929 hellishing1931 thumpingly1948 way1965 mega1966 mondo1968 seriously1970 totally1972 mucho1978 stonking1990 1676 G. Etherege Man of Mode i. i. 10 Not without he will promise to be bloody drunk. 1684 J. Dryden Prol. to Play call'd Disappointment The Doughty Bullies enter Bloody Drunk. 1693 T. Southerne Maids Last Prayer ii. ii. 31 Faith and troth, you were bloody angry. 1693 T. Southerne Maids Last Prayer iii. i. 38 She took it bloody ill of him. 1703 Observator 26 June Don't they Strip and Pull off their Cloaths when they go to work? 'Tis Bloody hot Business. 1716 A. Pope Full Acct. E. Curll 3 His Wife..said, ‘Are you not Sick, my Dear?’ He reply'd ‘Bloody Sick.’ 1753 S. Foote Englishman in Paris ii. 29 She's a bloody fine Girl. 1755 Monthly Rev. July 2 He's regarded at the tipling-houses as a drol, comical dog..and withal, perhaps, he sings a bloody good song. 1779 St. James's Chron. 30 Oct. The Jew Brokers, who frighten weak-minded Stockholders with some bloody bad News, and then pick their Pockets. 1801 M. Edgeworth Belinda I. vii. 208 Sir Philip writes a bloody bad hand. a1845 R. H. Barham Wedding-day in Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 3rd Ser. iii. vi. 42 This is a bloody positive old Fellow. 1857 Knickerbocker Oct. 333 I say, Spencer, what a bloody fine Yankee frigate that was we passed the other day. 1887 N.E.D. Bloody,..As an intensive: Very... In general colloquial use from the Restoration to c1750; now constantly in the mouths of the lowest classes, but by respectable people considered ‘a horrid word’, on a par with obscene or profane language, and usually printed in the newspapers (in police reports, etc.) ‘b——y’. 1891 N.Z. Parl. Deb. 73 333/2 He added, ‘If I get in I will make it bloody hot for you.’ 1908 H. C. Rowland Across Europe in Motor Boat ii. 38 I bloody calls this a bloody piece o' bloody h'impertinence! 1937 ‘J. Bell’ Murder in Hosp. viii. 156 I've always thought her a bloody awful great brute. 1965 O. B. Egbuna Anthill ii. 33 You're puttin' it bloody mildly, I can tell yer. 1991 J. Cartwright To 35 Fred: He's not going to get on that palomino horse is he? Alice: No way. Fred: He bloody is you know. 2006 Company Nov. 11/2 You can't deny David's a bloody good-looking lad. b. Inserted between components of a collocation or phrase which are not normally separated, and sometimes (esp. for comic effect) into a word. Cf. absolutely int. 2. ΚΠ 1871 Ballou's Monthly Mag. July 56/1 Look here, Mr. Bloody Davis, you've held your head up a little too high in this packet. 1911 La Follette's Weekly Mag. 4 Feb. 11/2 He tried to say that something was absolutely true. He succeeded in saying, ‘It is abso-bloody-lutely true.’ 1914 G. B. Shaw Pygmalion 111 Walk! Not bloody likely. 1923 J. Manchon Le Slang 65 Half bloody dead…stoney bloody broke. 1982 Benedicta! Fall 2 Receiving news from Uncle Mal twelve times a year would be ideal..but that is im-bloody-possible. 2003 Northern Territory News (Austral.) (Nexis) 31 Dec. 4 ‘It's gone from bad to bloody worse,’ she said. Phrases colloquial (originally U.S.). to scream (also cry, yell, etc.) bloody murder: to scream loudly, esp. due to fear or alarm; to make an extravagant and noisy protest.With quot. 1976 cf. blue murder n. Phrases 1. ΚΠ 1833 J. Hall Harpe's Head vi. 68 Poor Virginia, screaming bloody murder all the while. 1875 Frank Leslie's Illustr. Newspaper 4 Sept. 442/3 The pair of 'em grabbed the messenger and put them handcuffs on him, the fellow hollering bloody murder all the time. 1948 J. Maresca My Flag is Down vi. 39 He merely smacks her around the more and she's yelling bloody murder. 1976 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Jrnl. 6 Feb. 13/1 Western liberals..scream blue, bloody murder at the right-wing dictatorships. 1993 O. E. Allen Tiger viii. 215 The Fusionists cried bloody murder and dropped the two men from their slate. 2005 New Yorker 16 May 82/3 She would throw herself down, beat the floor, grow purple in the face, scream bloody murder. Compounds C1. a. General attributive. bloody-black adj. ΚΠ 1772 T. Cullum in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 62 466 Half a pint of a bloody-black water in the thorax. 1864 Captain Herbert I. iii. 52 Down goes the sun in a blaze to seaward, with everything bloody-black and big against it like beetles and crab's-claws. 2009 N. Glukhov Risen from Hell iv. 43 His belly turned into indescribable bloody-black mess. b. Parasynthetic. bloody-eyed adj. ΚΠ 1609 F. Greville Trag. Mustapha iiii. ii. sig. F2^v He bids them hast their charge; and bloudy ey'd, Beheld his sonne while he obeying died. 1821 Ld. Byron Sardanapalus iv. i. 110 A..bloody-eyed, And bloody-handed, ghastly, ghostly thing. 2005 L. Gibson & D. F. Mills Faces of Evil i. ii. 54 I looked like a monster, bloody-eyed and fierce. bloody-faced adj. ΚΠ a1594 R. Greenham Second Pt. Wks. (1600) xxxiii. 153 Those bloudy faced sins,..as murther, treason, adultery and theft. 1857 C. Mackay Leg. of Isles 5 War, old tyrant, bloody-faced and pale. 2009 C. Raphino Fire in Ocean ii. vii. 95 He found a bloody-faced, broken down young woman crying and coughing up blood. bloody-handed adj. ΚΠ 1588 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha (new ed.) ii. vii. 220 Youth..whether brawling, quarrelous, lightfingred or bloudie-handed. 1821 Ld. Byron Sardanapalus iv. i. 110 A..bloody-eyed, And bloody-handed, ghastly, ghostly thing. 2000 O. Douglas Salvo for Afr. 104 After euphoria of independence used to create power for bloody-handed soldiers. bloody-hearted adj. ΚΠ 1598 F. Hastings Watch-word to English-men 65 Wee stand for our Soueraigne, and countrie, against barbarous, vnnaturall, and most monstrous bloodie harted treasons. 1846 Mechanics' Mirror July 149/2 Persecution bore them as martyrs..to feast the eyes of bloody-hearted spectators..in the amphitheatre. 2008 H. Bedford-Jones Pirates' Gold viii. 87 I feared that the imp Dickon would pistol us where we lay..for the lad was bloody-hearted. bloody-lipped adj. ΚΠ 1837 Dublin Univ. Mag. Mar. 280 I knew at once a bloody-lipped hyena To've been a Russian Marshal. 1912 Chester (Pa.) Times 23 Mar. 1/4 With a cry the frenzied father rushed at the bloody lipped hound, kicking it into a far corner of the room. 2010 Daily News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 22 May 2 The trouble-prone reporter was busted by the NYPD Thursday night after a bloody-lipped chauffeur went to..report the assault. bloody-mouthed adj. ΚΠ 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. viii. sig. G6^v And euery head was..Bloody mouthed with late cruell feast. 1658 T. Bancroft Time's out of Tune xviii. 130 Then comes that bloudy-mouthed Monster, War. 1796 J. Spalding Sentiments conc. Coming & Kingdom of Christ iii. 59 Since the image of the beast rose up in the world, notwithstanding his appearance is so lamb-like,..the people of God suffer as much, and perhaps more, than they did by his ferocious bloody-mouthed predecessor. 1865 Richmond (Va.) Times 19 July 4/2 We have fought a good fight..against the remorseless, implacable and bloody-mouthed advocates of sectional agitation, Jacobinism and disfranchisement. 1979 A. Sinclair Facts in Case of E. A. Poe (1980) vi. 77 She came back from her cataleptic swoon, all bloody-mouthed like Elizabeth Arnold and William Henry Poe in their coughing deaths. 2007 Toronto Star (Nexis) 11 July a6 Frances stood facing the bloody-mouthed pit bull, armed with nothing but her courage and a shovel. bloody-nosed adj. ΚΠ 1792 J. Émïn Life & Adventures Joseph Émïn 49 The bloody-nosed and black-eyed gentlemen sailors..came and shook hands with him. 1892 C. Warren Miss Wilton xxii. 481 She remembered following him as he carried the bloody-nosed little urchin. 1922 Sandusky (Ohio) Reg. 28 July 4/1 These nations stand, like..bloody-nosed youngsters in an alley..ready to fly at each other again. 2005 P. Maguire Facing Death in Cambodia v. 103 Hun Sen was a bloody-nosed realist—to him there was no separation between politics and war. † bloody-sceptred adj. Obsolete ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. iii. 105 O Nation miserable! With an vntitled Tyrant, bloody Sceptred . View more context for this quotation 1881 A. J. Duffield tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote I. p. xv The coward and cruel hearts of the bloody-sceptred tyrants who held him in chains. 1913 A. O. Spare Bk. of Pleasure in Writings 59 Oh, folly of the world, deny thy faith, renounce this Bloody-Sceptred God and confess. C2. a. bloodyback n. chiefly U.S. slang derogatory a British soldier (now historical); cf. bloody-backed adj., lobster n.¹ 3a, redcoat n. 1a. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by nationality > [noun] > British redcoatc1605 lobster?1643 bloodyback1770 Blue Flint1827 rooibaadjie1848 choom1916 pongo1942 1770 Mass. Gaz. Extraord. 21 June 2/2 You Rascals, you bloody Backs, you Lobster Scoundrels; fire if you dare. 1836 Naval Mag. July 370 There were many riflemen and sharp shooters..by whom, we doubt not, that many a ‘bloody back’..and many a Hessian were laid low. 1899 Bookman Mar. 40/2 Folks think he's a bloodyback who's took French leave. 1997 R. M. Ketchum Saratoga (1999) viii. 149 They aimed at the crossed white belts on the bloodybacks' chests. bloody-backed adj. †(a) colloquial (of a British soldier) wearing the traditional uniform of a red coat (cf. redcoat n. 1a) (obsolete); (b) that has a bloody back, esp. from whipping. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing clothing for specific people > wearing uniform > types of liveried1637 bloody-backed1770 plain clothes1822 well-liveried1835 red-breeches1840 uniform1895 1770 Trial W. Wemms 102 We will knock down the first officer, or bloody backed rascal we shall meet this night. 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet III. ii. 35 They have the bloody-backed dragoons..with them. 1878 S. Lanier in Appletons' Jrnl. Nov. 396/1 And that place of the lashing full quiet became;..and bloody-backed Hamish sat still. 1999 D. Ray Demons in Diner 59 Those masters Who would even now delight To order this slave Whipped bloody-backed. bloody chasm n. U.S. (now historical) the estrangement between northern and southern states caused by the American Civil War; cf. chasm n. 5.In quot. 1863 applied to the American Civil War itself. ΚΠ 1863 Standard 28 May 4/5 Why was the gallant brigade of Sedgwick hurled into the bloody chasm which is swallowing up, by thousands of victims at a time, the manhood of the North? 1876 Congress. Rec. June 3791/1 This measure is one of reconciliation. It reunites; it fills up the ‘bloody chasm’. 1950 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 36 735 He was..one of the most successful among the former Confederates in bridging the ‘bloody chasm’ on terms both honest and honorable. 2001 F. Hilfrich in J. Heideking et al. Celebrating Ethnicity & Nation xii. 234 The graves that had served as reminders of the bloody chasm and sectional separation were thus finally subsumed in a common American culture of remembrance. † bloody-crying adj. Obsolete rare (of a sin) so bloody or brutal as to demand vengeance or punishment (with allusion to the crying out of the blood of Abel in Genesis 4:10). ΚΠ ?1614 S. Rowlands Sir Thomas Ouerbury (single sheet) Proccede with vengeance as thou didst begin, To punish Caines most bloody crying sinne. a1617 S. Hieron Penance for Sinne in Wks. (1620) II. 317 They are all bloudy-crying-sinnes, and such as to which belongs an especiall wo. † bloody fall n. Obsolete rare a dark red or purple pustule or sore developing during the night, esp. on the foot. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [noun] > a suppuration > blain or chilblain blainc1000 kibe1387 mulea1400 hekec1450 chilblain1547 bloody fall1601 night blain1601 night-foe1601 pernio1676 perniosis1896 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 76 The angry chilblanes and bloudy-fals that trouble the feet in the night season. 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Pedignoni, angrie kibes, chilblanes, or bloodie falles. bloody flag n. now historical a red flag displayed as a sign of readiness for battle (cf. red flag n. 1). ΚΠ 1589 J. Sarracoll in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations 801 The next day in the morning, in steede of their bloodie flagge, they put vp two white flagges. 1678 London Gaz. No. 1361 When it was light, he put abroad his bloody Flag at Main Topmost Head, fires a Gun, and commands us to Strike to the King of Argiers, and to Admiral Canary. 1789 W. G. Wheatcroft Powers of Fancy 22 When Civil Feuds this troubl'd island tore, And Discord pale her bloody flag high bore. 1838 Q. Rev. June 63 They hoisted the bloody flag, and they fired into two of the king's ships when escaping from them. 1953 A. P. Middleton Tobacco Coast xi. 331 They ran up a bloody flag at the mainmast truck to show that they would neither give nor receive quarter. 2004 M. B. Rediker Villains of All Nations v. 83 The pirates at some point raised their red or ‘bloody’ flag,..indicating that they would neither take nor give quarter. bloody grave n. the grave of someone who has died by bloodshed. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > [noun] > of one dead by bloodshed bloody grave1623 1623 J. Reynolds Triumphs Gods Revenge: 3rd Bk. xii. 103 And shall she any more lye in bedde with him, who so inhumanely hath layen him in his vntimely and bloody graue? 1800 W. Scott Eve St. John 9 By the Eilden tree, for long nights three, In bloody grave I have lain. 1998 E. R. Achtemaier Preaching Hard Texts of Old Test. xxi. 125 Generation after generation of young men go to war's bloody graves. † bloody-hunting adj. Obsolete rare hunting for blood. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iii. iii. 124 Herods bloody-hunting slaughter-men. View more context for this quotation Bloody Indian n. [after Woods Cree miθκο-iθiniwak, lit. ‘blood people’ (see Blood Indian n. at blood n. Compounds 5)] now historical a member of a North American Indian people belonging to the Blackfoot Confederacy; = Blood Indian n. at blood n. Compounds 5. ΚΠ 1758 J. Isham in A. J. Ray Indians in Fur Trade (1974) 55 Bloody Indians (or Mithcoo Ethenue) came down to trade. 1772 M. Cocking Jrnl. 1 Dec. in Trans. Royal Soc. Canada (1909) 2 ii. 110 There are 4 Tribes or Nations more..Viz., Mithco-Athinuwuck or Bloody Indians, Koskitow-Wathesitock or Blackfooted Indians, [etc.]. 1974 A. J. Ray Indians in Fur Trade iii. 59 He may have served in some essentially diplomatic fashion that enabled the Bloody Indians to pass peacefully through Assiniboine and Cree territory. 1991 D. R. Russell 18th Cent. Western Cree & their Neighbours xi. 184 At first sight, it is puzzling why the group is called the Eagle Indians in one place and the Bloody Indians in another. 2002 C. W. Guthrie Glacier National Park 10 These tribes became known as the Siksika or Siksikauwa–Blackfooted people; the Kainaa–Many Chiefs, who were also known as Blood or Bloody Indians; and the Piikani. † bloody-intended adj. Obsolete rare having bloody intentions. ΚΠ ?1606 (title) Prayers and thanksgiuing to be vsed by all the Kings Maiesties louing subiects, For the happy deliuerance of his Maiestie, the Queene, Prince, and States of Parliament, from the most traiterous and bloody intentended massacre by gunpowder, the 5 of Nouember 1605. † Bloody Monday n. Obsolete slang the first day of the school holidays, on which pupils who have committed an offence may be kept back and punished. ΘΚΠ society > education > educational administration > school administration > [noun] > day of punishment Bloody Monday1682 1682 R. Verney Let. to Father from Winchester College 18 May in R. T. Warner Winchester (1900) iii. 26 Bloddy munday, upon which day all the Children..Goe home & after that day noe body stays but some of the Children which the warden makes stay here for some notorious action they have committed. 1765 D. Garrick in Universal Mag. 37 326/1 I, like a boy who long has truant play'd..On bloody Monday take my fearful stand And often eye the birchen-scepter'd hand. 1807 ‘Q. Queerum’ Ashburner's New Vocal & Poetic Repository 197 Like a snail he creeps, And for bloody Monday weeps. bloody-nose beetle n. = bloody-nosed beetle n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Phytophaga or Chrysomeloidea > family Chrysomelidae > bloody-nosed beetle bloody-nose beetle1817 bloody-nosed beetle1826 1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. II. xxi. 247 You have doubtless often observed a black beetle crossing pathways with a slow pace, which feeds upon the different species of bedstraw (Galium, L.), called by some the bloody-nose beetle (Chrysomela tenebricosa, F.). 1966 J. Sankey Chalkland Ecol. iv. 98 Beetles... Timarcha tenebricosa (Fab.), greater bloody-nose beetle. T. goettingenis (L.), lesser bloody-nose beetle. 2007 Guardian (Nexis) 29 Aug. 30 I have an enduring and endearing image of a round, black, bloody-nose beetle walking across a child's hand. bloody-nosed beetle n. a black European leaf beetle of the genus Timarcha (family Chrysomelidae), spec. the large T. tenebricosa, which exudes red fluid from the mouth in defence. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Phytophaga or Chrysomeloidea > family Chrysomelidae > bloody-nosed beetle bloody-nose beetle1817 bloody-nosed beetle1826 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. xxix. 99 Some [eggs of insects] are yellow, as those of the silk-worm; others orange, such are the eggs of the bloody-nosed beetle (Timarcha tenebricosa). 1921 C. A. Ealand Insect Life vi. 210 The curious Bloody-Nosed Beetle, T. tenebricosa..is the largest European Chrysomelid, sluggish and wingless, and when touched it emits a blood-red fluid. 1998 Daily Tel. 29 July 24/4 Members of the Phytophaga include..the extraordinary bloody-nosed beetle, which exudes deep red blood from its mouth when disturbed. bloody rain n. = blood rain n. at blood n. Compounds 5. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > algae > [noun] > blood-rain bloody rain1587 blood rain1612 lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Domitian A.viii) anno 685 Her wearþ on Brytene blodi ren [L. pluuia sanguinea], & meolc & butere wurdon gewend to blode, & Lothere Cantwara cing forþferde.] 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 649/1 In a little towne in Bedfordshire there fell a bloudie raine, whereof the red drops appeered in sheets, the which a woman had hanged out for to drie. 1758 T. Flloyd & J. Hill tr. J. Swammerdam Bk. Nature 40/2 It is not impossible that those who affirm that bloody rain has fallen, have been deceived in the same manner. Is it not possible, that such red drops might issue from insects? 1838 Econ. Vegetation 156 The ‘gory dew,’ Palmella cruenta, and ‘bloody rain,’ Lepraria kermesina..are referrible to these humble and harmless tribes of vegetation. 1901 Public Opinion 14 Mar. 348/3 The phenomenon of ‘bloody rain’ occurred in Sicily and Italy, due to dust from the African deserts blown across the Mediterranean. 2007 S. Hempel Strange Case Broad Street Pump 152 In fact, this phenomenon, known as bloody rain, gory dew or red snow, is caused by various types of algae..that produce a bright red pigment. bloody shirt n. now rare a bloodstained shirt exhibited as a symbol of murder, outrage, or hostility; (United States) figurative as a symbol of the hostility between North and South during the Civil War. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > man-killing or homicide > murder or assassination > [noun] > symbol of bloody shirta1586 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > shirt > types of > other bloody shirta1586 ruffle shirt1749 ruffled shirt1754 dicky1781 overshirt1805 camise1812 mill tog1821 boiled shirt1853 Crimean shirt1853 Crimea shirt1857 shirtwaist1859 shirt1867 polo shirt1887 zephyr1887 Ghost Shirt1890 Henley1890 negligée shirt1895 turtle-neck1897 rugby shirt1902 bush shirt1909 tunic shirt1918 safari shirt1921 button-down1924 thousand-miler1929 aloha shirt1936 buba1937 zoot shirt1942 Hawaiian shirt1955 sweater-shirt1964 beach shirt1966 kimono shirt1968 dashiki1969 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. vi. sig. E1^v People..hauing no banners, but bloudie shirtes hanged vpon long staues. 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. l. 266 The bloody shirt of the martyr was exposed in the mosch of Damascus. 1840 L. Cass France 44 [Foucher adds] It is by spreading out the miseries of the workmen, the bloody shirt of some victim,..that the people are excited to take arms. 1876 Congr. Rec. Apr. 2523/2 The ‘bloody shirt’ is freely used at one end of the Capitol, and here at this end is the bugaboo of State rights. 1888 New York Weekly Times 21 Mar. (Farmer) It is reprehensible..for the Bourbons of the South to continue to play on the colour line—the Southern bloody shirt. 1904 Indianapolis News 23 June 6 To those that remember campaigns a few years ago, this is very much like the ‘bloody shirt’, which did duty for so many years. 1948 J. G. Kerwin Civil–Military Relationships in Amer. Life 31 The G.A.R. [= Grand Army of the Republic] waved the Bloody Shirt in many a political campaign, advising its boys in blue to ‘vote as you shot’. Bloody Statute n. (a popular name for) the Act 31 Hen. VIII. c. 4, called the Law of the Six Articles, imposing severe penalties on those who disputed certain articles of faith (see six adj. and n. Compounds 2). ΘΚΠ society > law > types of laws > [noun] > concerning religion Bloody Statutea1648 Five-mile Act1672 Corporation Act1679 test-law1687 Bill of Toleration1692 Test Act1708 Schism Act1733 Schism Bill1733 penal codea1777 Veto Act1835 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. CCxxxiiij Of some it was named the whip withe sixe strynges, and of some other and that of the moste parte, it was named the bloudy statute, for of truth it so in shorte time after skourged a great nombre in the citie of London. a1648 Ld. Herbert Life Henry VIII (1649) 446 The Six Articles, called by some the Bloody Statute, were also enacted this Parliament [1539]. 1769 E. Lewis Patriot King Displayed xxxii. 180 Dr. London, had caused three persons to be burnt at Windsor, upon the bloody statute, and had formed designs against many others. 1829 C. A. Goodrich Outl. Eccl. Hist. viii. 318 Towards the conclusion of Henry's reign, parliament had passed an act, commonly known by the name of the bloody statute, which consisted of six articles, designed to favour the cause of popery. 1944 F. L. Utley Crooked Rib III. 300 Furnivall believes the ballad may allude to the ‘Bloody Statute’ of 1539. 2008 A. P. Balk Saints & Sinners xxxi. 514 Henry personally pushed through Parliament the ‘Bloody Statute’ of the Six Articles..that imposed severe penalties against most of the standard Protestant beliefs. bloody water n. now rare urine containing blood; the presence of blood in the urine, or the condition characterized by this (= haematuria n.). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > urinary disorders > [noun] > blood in urine bloody water1607 haematuria1811 haematinuria1879 haemoglobinuria1881 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 79 When Oxen come first of all after Winter to grasse, they fall grasse-sicke, and pisse blood;..some praise the kernels of Walenuts put into Egge-shels for this cure, and other take the bloody water it selfe and blow it into the beastes Nostrils. 1734 J. Arbuthnot Let. Oct. 4 in Swift's Lett. (1766) iii. 192 I had forborn [to ride] for some years, because of bloody water. 1870 Fifth Ann. Rep. Amer. Dairymen's Assoc. 65 Other astringent and irritant agents, such as the young shoots of oaks, firs, and the like,..induce indigestion, constipation and bloody water. 1974 P. Jones Living with Haemophilia vi. 88 Haematuria is a frequent complication in some haemophilias... Persistent and frequent bloody water sometimes implies an underlying infection. b. In the names of plants with blood-red markings, or with blood-red coloured flowers, fruits, etc. † bloody cardinal n. North American Obsolete rare the cardinal flower, Lobelia cardinalis (family Campanulaceae), which has spikes of scarlet flowers. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > bellflowers > lobelia or cardinal flower rampion1578 cardinal flower1629 scarlet cardinal-flower1698 blue cardinal flower1723 lobelia1739 syphilitic lobelia1786 bloody cardinal1851 scarlet lobelia1874 1851 ‘I. Marvel’ Dream Life 199 The bloody cardinal of the swamp-lands. 1899 S. Pokagon Queen of Woods 70 She wore a skirt of green and waist of white, holding in her hands some stalks of bloody cardinal in full bloom. bloody cranesbill n. a Eurasian geranium, Geranium sanguineum, a perennial shrub typically having deep pink flowers and finely divided foliage which turns red in autumn, now commonly grown in gardens in numerous cultivated varieties. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > geranium and allied flowers > geranium canker1559 bloody cranesbill1634 geranium1760 scarlet geranium1760 pelargonium1813 Tom Thumb1847 fish geranium1865 1634 T. Johnson Mercurius Bot. 38 Geranium hæmatodes,..Red or bloody Cranes-bill. 1793 J. Nott Hotwell Waters 33 Geranium sanguineum. Bloody Crane's-bill. St. Vincents Rock, common. July, and August. 1863 M. Plues Rambles in Search of Wild Flowers 70 The Bloody Cranesbill..grows in luxuriance on the cliffs for some distance beyond Kynance. 1928 Times 9 Aug. 13/5 Here are strange plants, little known inland—blue sea-holly, the vivid seaside variety of the bloody cranesbill,..and lusty clumps of mauve sea rocket. 2004 G. Murphy Wild Flowers 96 (caption) Bloody Cranesbill is still to be seen on limestone in the Yorkshire and Derbyshire dales, despite having been preyed upon by unscrupulous gardeners. bloody dock n. the red dock, Rumex sanguineus, having leaves with red veins. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Polygonaceae (dock and allies) > [noun] > dock and allies red dockeOE dockc1000 rhubarbc1390 docken1423 patience?a1425 round dock1526 Rumex1565 wild patience1578 bloody dock1597 monk's rhubarb1597 Welsh sorrel1640 butterdock1688 mountain rhapontic1728 mountain sorrel1753 Rheum1753 redshank1810 patience dock1816 fiddle-dock1823 canaigre1868 nettle-docken1891 1597 J. Gerard Herball Table Eng. Names Bloodwort, that is bloodie Docke. 1761 J. Mordant Compl. Steward I. 48 Their [sc. clay lands] natural produce, as to weeds, are goose-grass, large daisies, thistles, bloody-dock, poppies, &c. 1852 Med. Times & Gaz. 21 Aug. 204/1 The leaves of the bloody dock are used as spinach on the Continent. 1903 Irish Naturalist Apr. 108 The Bloody Dock furnishes an instance..of a plant the leaves of which in Ireland very seldom develop the character from which the species derives its name. 2003 J. Glattstein Consider Leaf ii. 45 The color..may be located just along the petiole and major veins, as with bloody dock (Rumex sanguineus). bloody finger n. Scottish (now historical) (chiefly in plural) the common foxglove, Digitalis purpurea. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > foxglove and allied flowers > foxglove foxglovec1000 London button1552 wine-pot herb1552 finger1562 finger flower1562 lady's glove1575 foxter1623 fox-finger1657 fox1684 bloody finger1789 witch bell1808 fairy fingers1811 fairy thimble1813 dead men's bells1818 witches' thimbles1820 fairy bells1821 fairy glove1841 flap-dock1846 cow-flop1847 pop-glove1847 lady's thimble1853 Scotch mercury1853 poppy1856 fairy petticoats1864 finger root1870 fairy weed1871 pop-dock1878 witches' bells1884 1789 D. Davidson Thoughts Seasons 63 Frae rankly-growing bri'ers an' bluidy-fingers. a1824 in J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 29 The primrose, the bludifinger, and the crawtae grow unsqueez'd and unlooked at. 1873 Proc. Bath Nat. Hist. & Antiquarian Field Club 2 16 The noble Foxglove..bears a name with a similar meaning in almost all languages; in Scotland, however, it bears the more gloomy names of ‘bloody fingers’, and ‘dead man's bells’. 1908 S. R. Crockett Deep Moat Grange iv. 28 The hemlock and the foxglove, what we used to call ‘bloody fingers’, grow tall and red. 2001 Independent (Nexis) 16 June (Features section) 14 Fairy thimbles, dead men's bells, bloody fingers: these are a few of the imaginative names we have given to one of the most handsome plants in the herbal. bloody man's finger n. (also bloody men's finger) English regional (now rare) (chiefly in plural) (a) the wild arum or cuckoo pint, Arum maculatum; (b) the early purple orchid, Orchis mascula; (c) the foxglove; = bloody finger n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Araceae (wake-robin and allies) > [noun] dragonsc1000 cuckoo-pintlea1400 yekestersea1400 aaron?c1425 calf's-footc1450 cuckoo-spitc1450 rampa1500 priest's hood1526 wake-robin1530 green dragon1538 arum1551 cuckoo-pint1551 dragonwort1565 priest's pintle1578 tarragon1591 starch root1596 friar's cowl1597 friar's-hood1597 starchwort1597 dragon serpentine1598 dragon's-herb1600 small dragonwort1674 dumb cane1696 skunk weed1735 polecat weed1743 lords and ladies1755 mucka-mucka1769 skunk cabbage1778 bloody man's finger1787 green dragon1789 swamp-cabbage1792 priest in the pulpit1837 orontiad1846 arad1853 cows and calves1853 bulls and cows1863 skunk cabbage1869 aroid1876 Adam and Eve1877 stallion1878 cunjevoi1889 1787 W. Withering Bot. Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 2) II. 1012 Arum maculatum... Bloody-men's fingers, Worcestershire. 1854 Notes & Queries 16 Sept. 226/2 The plant [sc. Orchis mascula] is still called ‘Bloody Men's Fingers’ by the peasantry in the neighbourhood of Cheltenham. 1878 Notes & Queries 10 Aug. 105/1 Bloodyman's fingers, the flower of the foxglove (Digitalis purpurea). 1884 H. Friend Flowers & Flower Lore (ed. 2) 484 I am almost afraid to mention the Arum, seeing its aliases are so many... It is sometimes called Bloody-man's Finger. 1911 C. M. Skinner Myths & Legends Flowers 52 When these flowers convert to red berries, and the hood that covered them disappears, we see why the plant gained the name of ‘bloody men's fingers’. 1913 E. M. Wright Rustic Speech & Folk-lore 7 The foxglove is called:..witches' thimbles, bloody man's fingers, dead man's bells, [etc.]. 2009 Jrnl. Ecol. 97 374/1 More ominous folk names given to O. mascula are ‘Gethsemane’, ‘king's fingers’, ‘bloody man's fingers’ and ‘dead man's thumbs’ because the leaves have red markings which look like drops of blood. bloody twig n. now historical and rare the common dogwood, Cornus sanguinea, which has bare red stems in winter. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > cornus (dogwood and allies) > [noun] gaiterc1000 dog-tree1548 cornel1551 dogberry1551 prick tree1551 hound's-berry1578 hound's-tree1578 prick-timber tree1578 dwarf honeysuckle1597 dogwood1598 sanguine-rod1601 prickwood1691 bloody twig1759 rose willow1798 red osier1807 swamp dogwood1817 stone-berry?1838 bunch-berry1845 cornus1846 silky cornel1848 silky dogwood1900 pagoda tree1978 1759 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (ed. 7) at Cornus This is the Cornus fœmina... Female Dogwood, and the Virga Sanguinea. Matth. Bloody Twig. 1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. III. 108 The branches were so red, so like twigs of coral, that..its name of Bloody Twig..seemed appropriate. 1914 S. Kaye-Smith Three Furlongers i. iv. 45 But if ever he found a sudden splash of bryony in the hedge, or a flush of bloody-twig, or honeysuckle, or nuts, he wanted to pick them for her. 1985 J. Addison Illustr. Plant Lore 87 One of its [sc. dogwood's] alternative names..was bloody twig; others are wild cornel, dog-berry, hound's-tree and gaten-tree. bloody warrior n. chiefly English regional (south-western) (now rare) a dark red variety of the European wallflower, Erysimum cheiri. ΚΠ 1784 M. Dawes Stuckey’s Vanity Human Knowl. 17 The drooping lilly bows its head and dies, The showy tulips bending in a row, And bloody warriors sink beneath the foe. 1887 C. M. Yonge Herb of Field (rev. ed.) xv. 106 There are..none so noble-looking as the old-fashioned bloody-warrior, his head nodding with the weight of its numerous dark double blossoms. 1902 Westm. Budget 2 May 14/2 Nearly every cottage garden in the villages round about Wells had its patch of ‘bloody warriors’ when I was a boy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). bloodyv. Brit. /ˈblʌdi/, U.S. /ˈblədi/ Forms: Old English blodegian, Old English blodgian, Old English blodigian, early Middle English blodeke, 1500s blody, 1500s–1600s bloudy, 1600s– bloody; also Scottish pre-1700 bludy. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymon: bloody adj. Etymology: Cognate with or formed similarly to Old High German bluotagōn , bluotīgōn , Old Icelandic blóðga < the same Germanic base as bloody adj. In later use probably re-formed directly < bloody adj.In Old English the prefixed form geblōdigian (compare y- prefix) is also attested; compare also early Middle English (south-west midland) biblodgi to make bloody, to smear with blood (compare be- prefix, and also the variant readings in quot. a1250 at sense 1a). 1. a. transitive. To make (a person, part of the body, etc.) bloody by drawing blood, esp. violently; to smear (a person or thing) with blood. Also (in extended use): to hurt; to weaken (a person). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > soil [verb (transitive)] > stain or smear with blood bebloodyc1210 bebleedc1230 begore?1518 blood1522 imbrue1529 bloody1530 gore1566 engore1593 sanguine1610 gild1614 beblood1623 bleed1634 ensanguine1667 bloodstain1798 vermilion1817 imbue1850 OE Beowulf (2008) 2692 He geblodegod wearð sawuldriore. OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) i. ii. 14 Þær hi ealle ongunnon heora hors mid heora sperescæftum þerscan & mid heora spurum blodgian & heawan [L. calcaribus cruentare]. a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Titus) (1963) 156 Ne wið schurge ileadet, wið holin, ne wið breres ne blodeke [?c1225 Cleo. bibloðgi, c1230 Corpus Cambr. biblodgi] hire seluen. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xi. ii. l. 71 Now bludyand hys awyn breist with hys fystis. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 458/1 This parker blodyeth his clothes. 1596 T. Lodge Prosopopeia sig. D6^v If thou seest the virgines lappe, it is bloudied with the streames that fall from her Sonnes wounded head. 1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia ii. xxi. 235 No man did bloody his sword more than his Lordship did that day. 1669 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa VI. iii. vii. 210 One Souldier was found; who having bloodied himself all over, lay amongst the Dead to avoyd increasing their number. 1780 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 2) IV. iv. 78 Her fingers were bloodied by her lover's heart that lay before her like that of a sheep's for her dinner. 1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision II. v. 21 There came I, Pierc'd in the heart..And bloodying the plain. 1820 R. Southey in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1849) I. 4 The sword which was drawn (not bloodied, I hope) in this unlucky quarrel. 1860 J. Clemens Rivals xv. 243 The club I had dropped in the pool of blood when I knelt down by the body... My hands and clothes were bloodied at the same time. 1916 A. S. Moore Happy Valley ii. xxi. 265 It [sc. the name ‘the bucket-of-blood schoolhouse’] arose from a now famous encounter with one Bullpit whose nose had been bloodied. 1966 B. Malamud Fixer viii. i. 216 But the guard saw this through the spy hole, entered the cell, and bloodied the prisoner's mouth. 1996 Observer 29 Dec. 32/1 Milosevic has been bloodied by the current wave of anti-government protests, but no one is predicting his imminent fall. 2004 P. Southern Craze xvi. 118 His face is bloodied from where he nutted the previous owner of the car. b. transitive. figurative. To stain (a person, a person's hands, a country, etc.) with bloodshed; to taint. Also: to make (something) blood-red; to redden. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > making or becoming red > make red [verb (transitive)] > with dye, stain, or pigment purple?a1475 ruddle1538 bloody1590 sanguine1591 scutchanele1596 vermeil1596 vermilion1606 gule1609 incarnadinea1616 raddle1631 vermilion1656 bow-dyea1658 reddle1663 miniate1670 rud1680 tiver1792 red-ochre1805 roucou1817 vermilionize1854 red-lead1871 1590 J. Hester tr. J. Du Chesne Sclopotarie 75 My countrie..hath so long bene bloudied with domesticall and Ciuell warres. 1638 R. Younge Drunkard's Char. 421 Impudent Pharaoh, who being bloodied with his unresisted tyranny, could belch out defiance in the face of heaven. a1645 W. Browne tr. M. Le Roy Hist. Polexander (1647) ii. ii. 197 His shield was black in many places, and the rest bloodied with the long tresse of a Comet. 1668 J. Owen Nature Indwelling-sin v. 51 Their door of entrance into the folly of back-sliding, was..some great and notorious sin that bloodied their consciences. 1743 H. Fielding Jonathan Wild iii. x, in Misc. III. 253 He therefore imputed the Resolution with which Mr. Heartfree had so positively refused to concern himself in Murther..to a Fear of bloodying his Hands. 1863 World Affairs Aug. 312 England, France,..Russia, Turkey, India, and China have bloodied their hands in this work of human slaughter. 1884 Harper's Mag. Sept. 664/1 The conspirators [in the Gunpowder Plot] were all gentlemen, and they bloodied their delicate fingers at that point to no end. 1947 J. G. Winant Let. from Grosvenor Square vi. 89 Everybody has bloodied his copybook in waging total war. 1952 F. Mowat People of Deer iii. 37 With autumn already bloodying the dwarf shrubs of the plains. 1993 K. Biffle Month of Sundays 125 In July, Rube further bloodied his reputation. He murdered an Alabama postmaster. 2004 S. R. Murphy Cat Fear No Evil 110 Dawn had not begun to bloody the sky when Azrael brushed through Wilma Getz's daisies. †2. a. intransitive. To become bloodthirsty or savage, to be enraged. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ OE Harley Gloss. (1966) 114 Crudescit .i. seuit, inualescit : reawde uel blodgade. b. transitive. To enrage (a person) against another; = blood v. 3. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irritation > irritate [verb (transitive)] gremec893 grillc897 teenOE mispay?c1225 agrillec1275 oftenec1275 tarya1300 tarc1300 atenec1320 enchafec1374 to-tarc1384 stingc1386 chafe?a1400 pokec1400 irec1420 ertc1440 rehete1447 nettlec1450 bog1546 tickle1548 touch1581 urge1593 aggravate1598 irritate1598 dishumour1600 to wind up1602 to pick at ——1603 outhumour1607 vex1625 bloody1633 efferate1653 rankle1659 spleen1689 splenetize1700 rile1724 roil1742 to put out1796 to touch (also get, catch, etc.) (a person) on the raw1823 roughen1837 acerbate1845 to stroke against the hair, the wrong way (of the hair)1846 nag1849 to rub (a person, etc.) up the wrong way1859 frump1862 rattle1865 to set up any one's bristles1873 urticate1873 needle1874 draw1876 to rough up1877 to stick pins into1879 to get on ——1880 to make (someone) tiredc1883 razoo1890 to get under a person's skin1896 to get a person's goat1905 to be on at1907 to get a person's nanny1909 cag1919 to get a person's nanny-goat1928 cagmag1932 peeve1934 tick-off1934 to get on a person's tits1945 to piss off1946 bug1947 to get up a person's nose1951 tee1955 bum1970 tick1975 1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (i. 14) 264 Saul being so bloudied against David.., became as unmercifull to himselfe. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.adv.eOEv.OE
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