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:

    “A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.”
    —Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

    “He
    And his lot will all go down the long slide
    Like free bloody birds.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “Let each man render me his bloody hand.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)