Bloody

Bloody

Bloody is the adjectival form of blood. It is commonly used as an expletive attributive (intensifier) in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth and ex-Commonwealth countries, including Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Newfoundland and Labrador, the Anglophone Caribbean, India, and Pakistan.

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Famous quotes containing the word bloody:

    “The Christian always swears a bloody oath that he will never do it again. The civilized man simply resolves to be a bit more careful next time.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    “Do put your hand over your mouth, please. It’s bloody revolting.”
    —Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)

    “If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)