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bloudy

bloudy is the obsolete spelling of bloody.

Meaning of bloody

Adjective

bloody (comparative bloodier, superlative bloodiest)

  1. Covered in blood.
    • All that remained of his right hand after the accident was a bloody stump.
  2. Characterised by bloodshed.
    • There have been bloody battles between the two tribes.
  3. (Commonwealth, Hawaii, Ireland, UK, informal, mildly) Used as an intensifier.
    • Traffic in central London was a bloody mess this morning.
  4. (dated) Badly behaved; unpleasant; beastly.
    • Come to apologize to Charles. I was bloody to him and he's my guest. He's my guest and my only friend and I was bloody to him.1945, Evelyn Waugh, chapter 5, in Brideshead Revisited […], London: Chapman & Hall, published 1952, →OCLC, book 1 (Et in Arcadia Ego), pages 118–119

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Questions about bloudy

What is bloudy the obsolete spelling of?
Bloudy is the obsolete spelling of bloody.

Words near bloudy in the dictionary

  1. bloudhound
  2. bloudie
  3. blouding
  4. bloudless
  5. blouds
  6. bloudy
  7. Blough
  8. Bloughs
  9. Blouin
  10. Blouins
  11. blound

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