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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bloody/#m1)

2) With a lot of killing and injury, such as a battle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bloody/#m2)

3) (rude, mild swearing, UK, Australia, NZ, Ireland) Used to add strong feeling or anger: "bloody hell", "it's bloody cold". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bloody/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bloody/#x1)
- It was a long and bloody war. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bloody/#x2)
- (rude) Oh, bloody hell, I've missed the bus! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bloody/#x3)
- (rude) It's bloody freezing out here. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bloody/#x4)
- (rude) That was a bloody good goal! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bloody/#x5)
- The nurse cleaned the bloody cut. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bloody/#x6)
- (rude) Where's my bloody pencil gone? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bloody/#x7)
- The sheep was as yet all raw and bloody; but he liked it the better for that. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bloody/#x8)

### 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".](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/39-pardon-my-french/12/)
- [They worked it out together: a pushed queue, a shove, a bloody nose, all over a place in the line.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/373-jake-and-the-head-teacher/2/)
- ["Bloody hell, I'm dead," he mutters, meaning he's in big trouble.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/106-late-and-early-being-on-time/4/)
- [Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.142/)
- [Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: Woe to the bloody city!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.629/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bloody» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bloody/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.