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blerrie/bladdy hell – damn/damnit. Originally from the British English phrase "bloody hell". bliksem – strike, hit, punch; also used often as an expression of surprise/emphasis. It derives from the Dutch word for "lightning", and often occurs in conjunction with donner. "Bliksem! Daai weerlig was hard!". (Damn! That lightning-strike was loud!)
Use of the adjective bloody as a profane intensifier predates the 18th century. Its ultimate origin is unclear, and several hypotheses have been suggested. It may be a direct loan of Dutch bloote, (modern spelling blote) meaning entire, complete or pure, which was suggested by Ker (1837) to have been "transformed into bloody, in the consequently absurd phrases of bloody good, bloody bad ...
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Bloody is an intensifier in British English, often used in such phrases as "bloody Hell" or "bloody murder". Bloody may also refer to: The adjective of blood; Places
The film premiered on March 13, 2023, under the title Bloody Hell, in the narrative spotlight section of the South By Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas. [8]Retitled Fitting In, the film was shown at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival [12] and the 2023 Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival in Ontario, Canada, in September 2023, [13] [14] and at the 2023 Vancouver ...
After a thrilling first few months of unexpected success that boosted morale among the Ukrainian ranks, the reality of the bloodiest European conflict since World War II has taken its toll among ...
bloody: expletive attributive used to express anger ("bloody car") or shock ("bloody hell"), or for emphasis ("not bloody likely") (slang, today only mildly vulgar) *(similar US: damn ("damn car")) having, covered with or accompanied by blood considered a euphemism for more emphatic swear words: blow off to break wind to perform oral sex upon
So where the bloody hell are you? was a A$180 million advertising campaign launched by Tourism Australia in 2006. It was created by the Sydney office of advertising agency M&C Saatchi , under the approval of Scott Morrison (the future Prime Minister of Australia ), who was then managing director of Tourism Australia.