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rare | bloody |

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)
  • (cooking, particularly meats) Cooked very lightly, so the meat is still red (in the case of steak or beef in the general sense).
  • * Dryden
    • New-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy care / Turned by a gentle fire, and roasted rare .
    Synonyms
    * (cooked very lightly) sanguinary
    Antonyms
    * (cooked very lightly) well done
    Derived terms
    * medium-rare

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) rare, from (etyl) rare, .

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Very uncommon; scarce.
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  • (label) Thin; of low density.
    • Synonyms
    * (very uncommon) scarce, selcouth, seld, seldsome, selly, geason, uncommon
    Antonyms
    * (very uncommon) common
    Derived terms
    * rare bird * rare earth mineral
    Related terms
    * rarity

    Etymology 3

    Variant of rear .

    Verb

    (rar)
  • (US) To rear, rise up, start backwards.
  • * 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 328:
    • Frank pretended to rare back as if bedazzled, shielding his eyes with a forearm.
  • (US) To rear, bring up, raise.
    • 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)
  • (obsolete) early
  • * Chapman
    • Rude mechanicals that rare and late / Work in the market place.

    Anagrams

    * ----

    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