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Bloody

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used as an expletive in such phrases as “A bloody fool,” “Bloody drunk,” etc., arose from associating folly and drunkenness, etc., with what are called “Bloods,” or aristocratic rowdies. Similar to “Drunk as a lord.”

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“It was bloody hot walking to-day.”—Swift: Journal to Stella, letter xxii.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Blood
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Blood-guiltiness
Blood-horse (A)
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Blood Money
Blood Relation (A)
Blood-thirsty
Blood of the Grograms (The)
Bloody
Bloody (The)
Bloody Assizes
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Bloody-bones
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Bloody Wedding
Bloody Week (The)
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