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blódig

  • adjective
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Grammar
blódig, def. se blódiga, seó, ðæt blódige; adj.
Wright's OE grammar
§431;
BLOODY; sanguineus, cruentus
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  • Ne sý him bánes bryce, ne blódig wund

    let there not be to him a breaking of bone, nor a bloody wound,

      Exon. 42 b; Th. 143, 33; Gú. 670: Andr. Kmbl. 2945; An. 1475.
  • Se bræd of ðæm beorne blódigne gár

    he plucked the bloody dart from the chief,

      Byrht. Th. 136, 21; By. 154.
  • Geseoh nú swá ðín swát ageát, blódige stíge

    behold now where thy blood poured forth, a bloody path,

      Andr. Kmbl. 2883; An. 1444.
  • He byreþ blódig wæl

    he will bear off my bloody corpse,

      Beo. Th. 900; B. 448.
  • He his mǽg ofscét blódigan gáre

    he shot his kinsman with a bloody arrow,

      4872; B. 2440.
  • Ealle him brimu blódige þuhton

    all the waters seemed bloody to them,

      Cd. 170; Th. 214, 20; Exod. 572.
  • Ða hwettaþ hyra blódigan téþ

    who whet their bloody teeth,

      L. E. I. prm; Th. ii. 396, 6.
  • Blódigum teárum

    with bloody tears,

      Exon. 25 a; Th. 72, 20; Cri. 1175.
  • Blódig útsiht

    a dysentery;

    dysenteria,
      Ælfc. Gl. 11; Som. 57, 51; Wrt. Voc. 19, 53.
Etymology
[O. Sax. blódag: O. Frs. blodich: Dut. bloedig: Ger. blutig: M. H. Ger. bluotec: O. H. Ger. blótag: Dan. Swed. blodig: Icel. blóðigr.]
Derived forms
DER. ge-blódegian.
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Word-wheel

  • blódig, adj.