bloodspiller
bloodspiller noun: one who spills blood.
Noun
bloodspiller (plural bloodspillers)
- One who spills blood.
- But I maun hear naething about honour—we ken naething here but about credit. Honour is a homicide and a bloodspiller, that gangs about making frays in the street; but Credit is a decent, honest man, that sits at hame and makes the pat play.1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in Rob Roy. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst...
- I reckon to rush them right out of the way with a charge, firing our Winchesters, and yelling ‘Muerto, filhos de Vittorio!’ for they are of that old sinner’s ancient crew—‘Death to the Apash bloodspillers!’[19--?], Clarence E[verly] Ray, “The Sand Monuments”, in The Oklahoma Bandits: The Daltons and Their Desperate Gang (Wild West Series; 15), Chicago, Ill.: Regan Publishing Corporation […], →OCLC...
Forms of bloodspiller
| plural | bloodspillers |
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Origin of bloodspiller
From blood + spiller.
Questions about bloodspiller
- What does bloodspiller mean?
- Bloodspiller means one who spills blood.
- What part of speech is bloodspiller?
- Bloodspiller is a noun.
- What is the plural of bloodspiller?
- The plural of bloodspiller is bloodspillers.
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