bloody

Meanings

Adjective

• Covered in blood.
• Characterised by bloodshed.
• Used as an intensifier.
• Badly behaved; unpleasant; beastly.

Adverb

• Used to express anger, annoyance, shock, or for emphasis.

Verb

• To draw blood from one's opponent in a fight.
• To demonstrably harm the cause of an opponent.

Noun

• bloody mary

Related

Similar words

• bally, blasted, bleeding , blinking, blooming, damn, damned, dang, darned, doggone, flaming, freaking, fricking, frigging, fucking, goddam / goddamn, goddamned, godforsaken , wretched, rotten

Origin

• From Middle English blody, blodi, from Old English blōdiġ, blōdeġ, from Proto-Germanic *blōþagaz, equivalent to blood + -y. Cognate with Dutch bloedig, German blutig, Danish blodig, Swedish blodig, Icelandic blóðugur. See Wikipedia for thoughts on sense evolution.