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bloody
adjective- used as an intensifier; damned UK, 1676
After the adverbial use. Popular belief holds “bloody” to be blasphemous and derives it as a contraction of “by our lady” however there are no grounds to support this contention. Life’s blood itself must be the significant source. In the UK the most famous use is probably “Not bloody likely!” in the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, which shocked London audiences when first performed in 1916. The high frequency with which this term was used in Australia, especially in colonial times, has led to the appellation “the Great Australian Adjective”. In 1847, a commentator noted that a bullock-driver (proverbially great swearers) used the term 25 times in a quarter-hour period, and thus calculated that he would have said “this disgusting word” no less than 18,200,000 times in the course of 50 years (Australian National Dictionary). Though formerly ranked amongst the strongest taboo terms among polite speakers, and not permitted in print, it was evidently part of daily speech for many working class people. Now still commonly used in informal contexts. Taboo-wise its place has been taken by the synonymous FUCKINGBehind Bamboo”, p. 184). - The word bloody is so common in modern parlance that it is not regarded as swearing. — Halse Rogers, The Ugly Australian, p. 111, 1942
- — Dymphna Cusack, Picnic Races, p. 60, 1962
- Suit yourself! Win or lose you’ll still be a bloody parasite to me! — Wal Watkins, Race the Lazy River, p. 19, 1963
- — Patsy Adam-Smith, Folklore of the Australian Railwaymen, p. 218, 1969
- “I don’t know bloody well what you’re so bloody upset about” he shouted at her. “Since every bloody cove I ever bloody met says bloody anytime he bloody feels like it” — Bob Ellis and Anne Brooksbank, Mad Dog Morgan, p. 125, 1976
- Like bloody hell, I’ll go in my land rover. — Sam Weller, Old Bastards I Have Met, p. 57, 1979
- He looked me straight in the eye and said “I’d like to punch you on the bloody jaw, for what you’re doing to the English language.” — Simon Napier-Bell, Black Vinyl White Power, p. p. 35, 2001
- unpleasant; unpleasantly difficult UK, 1934
- — John Ayto, The Oxford Dictionary of Slang, p. 222, 1998
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