bloody
Plural: bloodies
Verb
Verb Forms: bloodied, bloodying, bloodies
- To make something stained or covered with blood.
- cover with blood
- "bloody your hands"
- To stain with blood.
- To draw blood from (one's opponent) in a fight.
- To demonstrably harm (the cause of an opponent).
Adjective
- Stained with blood; characterized by bloodshed.
- having or covered with or accompanied by blood
- "a bloody nose"
- "your scarf is all bloody"
- "the effects will be violent and probably bloody"
- "a bloody fight"
Adjective Satellite
- informal intensifiers
- "a bloody fool"
Adverb
- extremely
- "you are bloody right"
Adj
- Covered in blood.
- Characterised by bloodshed.
- Used as an intensifier.
- Badly behaved; unpleasant; beastly.
Adv
- Used to express anger, annoyance, or shock, or for emphasis.
Noun
- bloody mary
Examples
- A particularly vicious opponent might try to bloody the board with aggressive plays in Scrabble.
- All that remained of his right hand after the accident was a bloody stump.
- That was a bloody good play, earning him nearly 100 points in Words With Friends!
- The butcher often bloodied his apron in the course of his work.
- There have been bloody battles between the two tribes.
- Traffic in central London was a bloody mess this morning.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English blody, blodi, from Old English blōdiġ, blōdeġ (“bloody”), from Proto-West Germanic *blōdag, from Proto-Germanic *blōþagaz (“bloody”), equivalent to blood + -y. Cognate with Dutch bloedig (“bloody”), German blutig (“bloody”), Danish blodig (“bloody”), Swedish blodig (“bloody”), Icelandic blóðugur (“bloody”). See Wikipedia for thoughts on sense evolution.
Synonyms
all-fired, bally, blinking, blooming, crashing, damn, flaming, fucking, blasted, bleeding, bloodied, bloody well, damned, dang, darned, doggone, freaking, fricking, frigging, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, godforsaken, gory, rotten, sanguinolent, wretched
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 12
bloody: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordbloody: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
bloody: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary