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:

    “Bloody men are like bloody buses—
    You wait for about a year
    And as soon as one approaches your stop
    Two or three others appear.”
    —Wendy Cope (b. 1945)

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

    “Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)