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bloody-handed

adj

Etymology

From bloody + handed.

  1. inherited from *handuz✻
  2. inherited from *handu✻
  3. inherited from hand
  4. inherited from hond
  5. suffixed as handed — “hand + ed”
  6. compounded as bloody-handed — “bloody + handed”

Definitions

  1. Having hands that have blood on them.

    • Secondly there would have been blood transferred to Dr. Sheppard's hand and fingers by the bloody-handed killer as he removed Dr. Sheppard's wristwatch and ring.

  2. Murderous, guilty of or prone to violence or atrocities.

    • Here, student, some man or woman kills living beings and is murderous, bloody-handed, given to blows and violence, merciless to living beings.
    • Then taking Congè of that virgin pure, The bloody-handed babe unto her truth Did earnestly committ, and her conjure, In vertuous lore to traine his tender youth, And all that gentle noriture ensueth

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