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:

    “I’m a gentleman’s gentleman, and you’re no bloody gentleman.”
    —Harold Pinter (b. 1930)

    “And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats,
    None knew so well as I:
    For he who lives more lives than one
    More deaths than one must die.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “To give the victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)