Rare vs Bloody - What's the difference?
rare | bloody |
(cooking, particularly meats) Cooked very lightly, so the meat is still red (in the case of steak or beef in the general sense).
* Dryden
Very uncommon; scarce.
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, title= (label) Thin; of low density.
(US) To rear, rise up, start backwards.
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 328:
(US) To rear, bring up, raise.
(obsolete) early
* Chapman
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 adjectives the difference between rare and bloody
is that rare is (cooking|particularly meats) cooked very lightly, so the meat is still red (in the case of steak or beef in the general sense) or rare can be very uncommon; scarce or rare can be (obsolete) early while bloody is covered in blood.As verbs the difference between rare and bloody
is that rare is (us|intransitive) to rear, rise up, start backwards while bloody is to draw blood from one's opponent in a fight.As an adverb bloody is
(au|nz|british|mildly|vulgar) used to intensify what follows this adverb.rare
English
Etymology 1
From a dialectal variant of rear, from (etyl) rere, from (etyl) . More at (l).Alternative forms
* (l), (l) (UK)Adjective
(en-adj)- New-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy care / Turned by a gentle fire, and roasted rare .
Synonyms
* (cooked very lightly) sanguinaryAntonyms
* (cooked very lightly) well doneDerived terms
* medium-rareEtymology 2
From (etyl) rare, from (etyl) rare, .Adjective
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Wild Plants to the Rescue, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
Synonyms
* (very uncommon) scarce, selcouth, seld, seldsome, selly, geason, uncommonAntonyms
* (very uncommon) commonDerived terms
* rare bird * rare earth mineralEtymology 3
Variant of rear .Verb
(rar)- Frank pretended to rare back as if bedazzled, shielding his eyes with a forearm.
Usage notes
* (rft-sense) Principal current, non-literary use is of the present participle raring' with a verb in "'''raring''' to". The principal verb in that construction is ''go''. Thus, '''''raring''' to go'' ("eager (to start something)") is the expression in which '''''rare is most often encountered as a verb.Etymology 4
Compare rather, rath.Adjective
(en adjective)- Rude mechanicals that rare and late / Work in the market place.
Anagrams
* ----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.
