Bleeping vs Bleeding - What's the difference?
bleeping | bleeding |
(UK, euphemistic, slang) A generic intensifier which can be substituted for any profane intensifier.
English intensifiers
English degree adverbs
(UK, slang) (used as an intensifier) extreme, outright.
* "You are a bleeding liar. Truth is of no interest to you at all." — [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.software.year-2000/msg/ba82c9dd28cde368]
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(UK, slang) (used as an intensifier) Extremely.
The flow or loss of blood from a damaged blood vessel.
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(medicine, historical) bloodletting
As verbs the difference between bleeping and bleeding
is that bleeping is while bleeding is .As adjectives the difference between bleeping and bleeding
is that bleeping is (uk|euphemistic|slang) a generic intensifier which can be substituted for any profane intensifier while bleeding is (uk|slang) (used as an intensifier) extreme, outright.As an adverb bleeding is
(uk|slang) (used as an intensifier) extremely.As a noun bleeding is
the flow or loss of blood from a damaged blood vessel.bleeping
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)bleeding
English
Verb
(head)Derived terms
* bleeding heartAdjective
(-)- "You are a bleeding idiot sometimes, but I love you and", Harry hands him the first gift Severus ever gave him and says, "One hundred and sixteen."
Adverb
(-)- His car's motor is bleeding smoking down the motorway.
- It turns out he was too bleeding cheap to ever drain the oil.
Noun
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