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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)

  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
  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.

Forms of blueblooded

comparativemore blueblooded
superlativemost 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

  1. bluebird
  2. bluebird of happiness
  3. bluebirds
  4. bluebirds of happiness
  5. blueblood
  6. blueblooded
  7. bluebloodedness
  8. bluebloods
  9. blueblossom
  10. blueblossoms
  11. bluebok

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