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blue-blooded

blue-blooded adjective: aristocratic; noble; patrician.

Adjective

blue-blooded (comparative more blue-blooded or (rare) bluer-blooded, superlative most blue-blooded or (rare) bluest-blooded)

  1. Aristocratic; noble; patrician.
    • Fario was a withered little man, as ugly as though he were a blue-blooded grandee.1887, Katherine Prescott Wormeley, transl., The Two Brothers, translation of La Rabouilleuse by Honoré de Balzac
    • But, as I was saying, we listened and heard The Dowd drawl worse than ever. She drops her final g’s like a barmaid or a blue-blooded Aide-de-Camp.[1889 January], Rudyard Kipling, “A Second-rate Woman”, in Under the Deodars (A. H. Wheeler & Co.’s Indian Railway Library; no. 4), Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh: A[rthur] H[enry] Wheeler & Co.; London...
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blue, blooded.
    • The garden snail, a blue-blooded land animal, is sometimes seen as food, sometimes as pest.

blue-blooded meaning in Indonesian

blue-blooded in Indonesian

aristocratic or patrician
berdarah biru

Examples of blue-blooded in a sentence

  • The Major was the very type of a blue-blooded old aristocrat; he was all noblesse oblige to those within the magic circle of his intimacy—but alas for those outside it!1908, Upton Sinclair, chapter XII, in The Metropolis:
  • When I was thirty-five / It was a very good year / It was a very good year for blue-blooded girls / Of independent means / We'd ride in limousines1965, Ervin Drake, “It Was a Very Good Year”, performed by Frank Sinatra:

Forms of blue-blooded

comparativemore blue-blooded
superlativemost blue-blooded
alternative formblueblooded
comparative (rare)bluer-blooded
superlative (rare)bluest-blooded

Origin of blue-blooded

From blue blood + -ed.

Words formed from blue-blooded

Questions about blue-blooded

What does blue-blooded mean?
Blue-blooded means aristocratic; noble; patrician.
What is blue-blooded in Indonesian?
Blue-blooded in Indonesian is berdarah biru. See Blue-blooded meaning in Indonesian.
How do you use blue-blooded in a sentence?
The Major was the very type of a blue-blooded old aristocrat; he was all noblesse oblige to those within the magic circle of his intimacy—but alas for those outside it!
What part of speech is blue-blooded?
Blue-blooded is an adjective.

Words near blue-blooded in the dictionary

  1. blue-billed ducks
  2. blue-black
  3. blue-black grosbeak
  4. blue-blacks
  5. blue-blood
  6. blue-blooded
  7. blue-bloodedness
  8. blue-bloods
  9. blue-bottle
  10. blue-bottles
  11. blue-breasted fairywren

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