bloody : Idioms & Phrases
bloody flux
Blood"y flux`
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The dysentery, a disease in which the flux or discharge from the bowels has a mixture of blood. Arbuthnot.
Webster 1913
bloody hand
Blood"y hand`
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A hand stained with the blood of a deer, which, in the old forest laws of England, was sufficient evidence of a man's trespass in the forest against venison. Jacob. -
(Her.) A red hand, as in the arms of Ulster, which is now the distinguishing mark of a baronet of the United Kingdom.
Webster 1913
bloody mary
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noun daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon who was Queen of England from 1553 to 1558; she was the wife of Philip II of Spain and when she restored Roman Catholicism to England many Protestants were burned at the stake as heretics (1516-1558)
Mary Tudor; Mary I.
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noun a cocktail made with vodka and spicy tomato juice
WordNet
bloody shame
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noun a Bloody Mary made without alcohol
Virgin Mary.
WordNet
bloody sweat
Blood"y sweat`
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A sweat accompanied by a discharge of blood; a disease, called sweating sickness, formerly prevalent in England and other countries.
Webster 1913
bloody-minded
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adjective satellite stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate
cantankerous.
- unions...have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders"- Spectator
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adjective satellite marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed
bloodthirsty; sanguinary.
- bloody-minded tyrants
- bloodthirsty yells
- went after the collaborators with a sanguinary fury that drenched the land with blood"-G.W.Johnson
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Blood"y-mind"ed adjective
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Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty. Dryden.
