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blood-house

blood-house is the alternative form of bloodhouse.

Meaning of bloodhouse

Noun

bloodhouse (plural bloodhouses)

  1. A building where violent, bloody brawls are common.
    • ‘[…]Not,’ she elaborated with ponderous wistfulness, ‘that I don’t enjoy an occasional slumming expedition to the bloodhouses. Graham won’t use a bar that isn’t full of men in grubby singlets;[…]’1961, George Turner, A Stranger and Afraid, London: Cassell, page 40

Forms of blood-house

pluralblood-houses

Questions about blood-house

What is blood-house the alternative form of?
Blood-house is the alternative form of bloodhouse.

Words near blood-house in the dictionary

  1. blood-eagle
  2. blood-eagled
  3. blood-eagles
  4. blood-eagling
  5. blood-hound
  6. blood-house
  7. blood-houses
  8. blood-letting
  9. blood-red
  10. blood-red ant
  11. blood-red ants

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blood-house (page history and authors); bloodhouse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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