bloodhungry

adj

Etymology

From blood + hungry.

  1. inherited from *hungrugaz — “hungry
  2. inherited from *hungrug
  3. inherited from hungriġ
  4. inherited from hungry
  5. compounded as bloodhungry — “blood + hungry

Definitions

  1. Eager to kill or shed blood.

    • Duane Jones, who played the last survivor in George Romero's classic Night of the Living Dead, is the bloodhungry lead of Ganja and Hess, a dark and smoky 1973 classic of black horror cinema directed by Pill Gunn.
    • They were one bloodhungry entity.
    • Bloodhungry, hostile Cheyennes tracked them like wild beasts.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bloodhungry. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA