blueblooded
blueblooded is the alternative form of blue-blooded.
Meaning of blue-blooded
Adjective
blue-blooded (comparative more blue-blooded or (rare) bluer-blooded, superlative most blue-blooded or (rare) bluest-blooded)
- 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
- 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.
Forms of blueblooded
| comparative | more blueblooded |
|---|---|
| superlative | most blueblooded |
Words formed from blueblooded
Questions about blueblooded
- What is blueblooded the alternative form of?
- Blueblooded is the alternative form of blue-blooded.
Words near blueblooded in the dictionary
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