Bloodies vs Bloodied - What's the difference?
bloodies | bloodied |
(bloody)
Covered in blood.
* , Act 5, Scene 1, 2008 [1947], Forgotten Books,
* 2011 , , analysis of Act 2 Scene 1,
Characterised by bloodshed.
* Shakespeare
* 1845 , , 2008,
* 2007 , Lucinda Mallows, Lucy Mallows, Slovakia: The Bradt Travel Guide ,
(AU, NZ, UK, colloquial, mildly, vulgar, not comparable) Used as an intensifier.
* 1994 , , Lord of Chaos , page 519,
* 2003 , ,
* 2007 , James MacFarlane, Avenge My Kin , Book 2: A Time of Testing,
(AU, NZ, British, mildly, vulgar) Used to intensify what follows this adverb.
To draw blood from one's opponent in a fight.
To demonstrably harm the cause of an opponent.
As verbs the difference between bloodies and bloodied
is that bloodies is (bloody) while bloodied is (bloody).bloodies
English
Verb
(head)bloody
English
Alternative forms
* bloudy (obsolete)Adjective
(er)- All that remained of his right hand after the accident was a bloody stump.
page 84,
- And, as she fled, her mantle she did fall, / Which Lion vile with bloody mouth did stain.
100,
- They plan to walk to the market-place, showing their bloody hands and swords and declaring ‘Peace, freedom and liberty!’
- There have been bloody battles between the two tribes.
- Some bloody passion shakes your very frame.
page 5,
- I had therefore been, until now, out of the way of the bloody scenes that often occurred on the plantation.
page 169,
- The story of Elizabeth Bathory is one of the bloodiest in history.
- Try to keep those bloody' women's '''bloody''' heads on their ' bloody shoulders by somehow helping them make this whole mad impossible scheme actually work.
page 64,
- You are not to go asking anyone about who killed that bloody dog.
page 498,
- “You bloody fool, I could?ve stabbed you in the heart,” David said in mock anger, and then smiled widely.
Synonyms
* (covered in blood) bleeding, bloodied, gory, sanguinolent * (intensifier) bally, blasted, bleeding (chiefly British cockney), blinking, blooming, damn, damned, dang, darned, doggone, flaming, freaking, fricking, frigging, fucking, goddam / goddamn, goddamned, godforsaken (rare), wretched, rotten * See alsoDerived terms
* bloody hell * bloody oath * bloody mary * bloody warrior * give someone a bloody noseAdverb
(en adverb)- 1994:' '', 109 - "Dice are no ' bloody good," David said.