bloody

«bloody» in Mova's school dictionary: Covered in blood or bleeding — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (bloodier, bloodiest); adverb (bloody — rude, UK, Australia, NZ, Ireland)

meaning for a pupil

1) Covered in blood or bleeding. tree →

2) With a lot of killing and injury, such as a battle. tree →

3) (rude, mild swearing, UK, Australia, NZ, Ireland) Used to add strong feeling or anger: "bloody hell", "it's bloody cold". tree →

sense in the lessons

In history and stories: "a bloody battle", "a bloody nose". In real speech in Britain and Australia, "bloody" is a mild swear word showing anger, surprise or emphasis. Not used politely, never in school writing. Phrases: a bloody nose, bloody hell, bloody good.

examples

• He fell off his bike and got a bloody knee. tree →
• It was a long and bloody war. tree →
• (rude) Oh, bloody hell, I've missed the bus! tree →
• (rude) It's bloody freezing out here. tree →
• (rude) That was a bloody good goal! tree →
• The nurse cleaned the bloody cut. tree →
• (rude) Where's my bloody pencil gone? tree →
• The sheep was as yet all raw and bloody; but he liked it the better for that. tree →

note

As a swear word it adds feeling, not meaning: "bloody cold" just means "very cold". It is rude in the UK, Australia, NZ and Ireland, and sounds old-fashioned or British in the USA. In a maths problem "a bloody 12 apples" is still 12 apples.

In the corpora

• "Ruddy" is an old-fashioned British stand-in for "bloody".
• They worked it out together: a pushed queue, a shove, a bloody nose, all over a place in the line.
• "Bloody hell, I'm dead," he mutters, meaning he's in big trouble.
• Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
• Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: Woe to the bloody city!

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «bloody» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.