bloodlust

noun
/ˈblʌdˌlʌst/UK

Etymology

From blood + lust.

  1. inherited from *lustuz
  2. inherited from *lustu
  3. inherited from lust — “lust, pleasure, longing
  4. inherited from lust
  5. compounded as bloodlust — “blood + lust

Definitions

  1. A desire for bloodshed and carnage, often aroused in the heat of battle and leading to…

    A desire for bloodshed and carnage, often aroused in the heat of battle and leading to uncontrolled slaughter and torture.

    • Yet the blood lust was on me now. I found myself on my feet emptying one magazine, then the other, clicking open the breech to re-load, snapping it to again, while cheering and yelling with pure ferocity and joy of slaughter as I did so.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bloodlust. 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