Bloody vs Blooey - What's the difference?

bloody | blooey |

As adjectives the difference between bloody and blooey

is that bloody is covered in blood while blooey is (dated|slang) haywire, amiss.

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.

As an interjection blooey is

bloody

English

Alternative forms

* bloudy (obsolete)

Adjective

(er)

Covered in blood.

All that remained of his right hand after the accident was a bloody stump.

* , Act 5, Scene 1, 2008 [1947], Forgotten Books, page 84,

And, as she fled, her mantle she did fall, / Which Lion vile with bloody mouth did stain.

* 2011 , , analysis of Act 2 Scene 1, 100,

They plan to walk to the market-place, showing their bloody hands and swords and declaring ‘Peace, freedom and liberty!’

Characterised by bloodshed.

There have been bloody battles between the two tribes.

* Shakespeare

Some bloody passion shakes your very frame.

* 1845 , , 2008, page 5,

I had therefore been, until now, out of the way of the bloody scenes that often occurred on the plantation.

* 2007 , Lucinda Mallows, Lucy Mallows, Slovakia: The Bradt Travel Guide , page 169,

The story of Elizabeth Bathory is one of the bloodiest in history.

(AU, NZ, UK, colloquial, mildly, vulgar, not comparable) Used as an intensifier.

* 1994 , , Lord of Chaos , page 519,

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.

* 2003 , , page 64,

You are not to go asking anyone about who killed that bloody dog.

* 2007 , James MacFarlane, Avenge My Kin , Book 2: A Time of Testing, 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 also

Derived terms

* bloody hell * bloody oath * bloody mary * bloody warrior * give someone a bloody nose

Adverb

(en adverb)

(AU, NZ, British, mildly, vulgar) Used to intensify what follows this adverb.

1994:' '', 109 - "Dice are no ' bloody good," David said.

Synonyms

* bloody well * bally, blasted, bleeding, blooming

Verb

To draw blood from one's opponent in a fight.

To demonstrably harm the cause of an opponent.

Anagrams

* English degree adverbs English intensifiers English swear words

blooey

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

(dated, slang) Haywire, amiss.

* 1921 , P. G. Wodehouse, Indiscretions of Archie , George H. Doran Company (1921), Chapter XXI:

Mother says vegetables contain all the proteins you want. Mother says, if you eat meat, your blood-pressure goes all blooey . Do you think it does?"

Interjection

(en interjection)

* 1963 , Rick Raphael, " Code Three", Analog Science Fiction and Fact , February 1963:

"We were heading for a school dance at Cincinnati and she was boiling along like she was in orbit when blooey she just quit."

Synonyms

* bam, bang, kablooie