英语词汇bloody的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

bloody. Partridge’s Word, Words, Words! has a 2,000-word essay on bloody, which has been an objectionable adjective in Britain since the early 1800s, though it had been respectable enough for a century before. Meaning “very,” it may have become objectionable because it suggested menstruation, or suggested the profanity “By’r Lady”—many plausible and implausible suggestions have been made. But Partridge be- lieved that “the idea of blood suffices” to explain the squeam- ishness. Bloody is often inserted for emphasis within words, as in abso-bloody-lutely.

词汇	bloody
词源	bloody. Partridge’s Word, Words, Words! has a 2,000-word essay on bloody, which has been an objectionable adjective in Britain since the early 1800s, though it had been respectable enough for a century before. Meaning “very,” it may have become objectionable because it suggested menstruation, or suggested the profanity “By’r Lady”—many plausible and implausible suggestions have been made. But Partridge be- lieved that “the idea of blood suffices” to explain the squeam- ishness. Bloody is often inserted for emphasis within words, as in abso-bloody-lutely.
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