From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishbloodyblood‧y1 /ˈblʌdi/ adjective, adverb spoken 1 VERY especially British English used to emphasize what you are saying, in a slightly rude way It’s bloody cold out there! That’s a bloody good idea. Bloody hell!2 → bloody well
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bloody• It got to be a bloody bind.• Yeltsin has entered an electoral contest that may be less bloody but even harder for him to win.• Shah Jehan had himself come to power twelve years earlier after a bloody civil war.• He begins his career as a boy with gruesome, bloody experiments on live animals.• He was holding a stout branch, and impaled upon it was the bloody head of the leopard.• The restaurant smelled of bloody meat and salad dressing.• a bloody nose• Finding out things in my line of business isn't like going to the bloody public library.• Even the bloody weather stayed nice!bloodybloody2 adjective 1 MIINJUREcovered in blood, or bleeding2 KILLINJUREwith a lot of killing and injuries a bloody battle► see thesaurus at violent3 → scream/yell bloody murder4 → bloody/bloodied but unbowedExamples from the Corpus
bloody• Yeltsin has entered an electoral contest that may be less bloody but even harder for him to win.• Shah Jehan had himself come to power twelve years earlier after a bloody civil war.• He begins his career as a boy with gruesome, bloody experiments on live animals.• He was holding a stout branch, and impaled upon it was the bloody head of the leopard.• The restaurant smelled of bloody meat and salad dressing.bloodybloody3 verb (bloodied, bloodying, bloodies) [transitive] MIINJUREto injure someone so that blood comes, or to cover something with blood→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpus
bloody• The boy punched Jack and bloodied his nose. 