bloody Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb cover with blood
    • bloody your hands
  2. adjective 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
  3. adjective satellite informal intensifiers
    fucking; bally; flaming; blinking; blooming; crashing.
    • what a bally (or blinking) nuisance
    • a bloody fool
    • a crashing bore
    • you flaming idiot
  4. adverb extremely
    all-fired; damn.
    • you are bloody right
    • Why are you so all-fired aggressive?

WordNet

Blood"y adjective
Etymology
AS. bldig.
Definitions
  1. Containing or resembling blood; of the nature of blood; as, bloody excretions; bloody sweat.
  2. Smeared or stained with blood; as, bloody hands; a bloody handkerchief.
  3. Given, or tending, to the shedding of blood; having a cruel, savage disposition; murderous; cruel.
    Some bloody passion shakes your very frame. Shak.
  4. Attended with, or involving, bloodshed; sanguinary; esp., marked by great slaughter or cruelty; as, a bloody battle.
  5. Infamous; contemptible; -- variously used for mere emphasis or as a low epithet. Vulgar Thackeray.
Blood"y transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Bloodied ; present participle & verbal noun Bloodying
Definitions
  1. To stain with blood. Overbury.

Webster 1913