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bloody noun

noun

Etymology

From "blood 'n' 'oun's", from "blood and wounds". Several sources, including Harrison Garman's 1892 A Synopsis of the Reptiles and Amphibians of Illinois, say the frog is so called because "its peculiar bass notes […] have a fancied resemblance to the expression" blood and wounds and other similar-sounding and similarly imposing phrases like "be drowned".

Definitions

  1. The bullfrog, or the sound made by it.

    • "Ye little spalpeeny frog of a bog-throtting son of a bloody noun!"
    • The big fellow was not there, but a keen-eyed little bull-frog had taken his place and he seemed to comprehend the situation at a glance. For he set up the croak, Bloody nouns, played out! played out!! PLAYED OUT!!!
    • "Bloody nouns are the big ones." […] A name given by boys in Philadelphia to large bullfrogs.

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