Bloody vs Bloodcurdling - What's the difference?
bloody | bloodcurdling | Related terms |
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.
Bloody is a related term of bloodcurdling.
As adjectives the difference between bloody and bloodcurdling
is that bloody is covered in blood while bloodcurdling is causing great horror or terror.As an adverb bloody
is (au|nz|british|mildly|vulgar) used to intensify what follows this adverb.As a verb bloody
is to draw blood from one's opponent in a fight.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.
