English

Adjective

bloodsome ‎(comparative more bloodsome, superlative most bloodsome)

1. (literally and figuratively) Marked by blood; bloody (all senses)
   • 2008, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves:

     The sight of the rope against the whitewashed wall and the thought of the bloodsome uproar which was about to smash the peace of the night into hash served to deepen that rummy feeling to which I have alluded.

   • 2008, Witold Gombrowicz, Trans-Atlantyk:

     If not for all that beyond the Forest, the Waters, I would not this Anxiousness have, but indeed with the sign of that Carnage, bloodsome, not only to me but to everyone 'tis Burdensome, bothersome, and every—[...]

   • 2013, P. G. Wodehouse, ‎Sophie Ratcliffe, P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters:

     Cannes is the hotel garden, which contains ornamental water with ducks, water-rats etc, and forms an oasis in this bloodsome desert.

   • 2013, Jim Perrin, Shipton and Tilman:

     '[...] It makes things rather bloodsome.'

   • 2014, Gabriel Fielding, Through Streets Broad and Narrow:

     “It's not just the bloodsome noise; but, also, you're out of time.”

   • 2015, Lt.-Colonel John Frederick Lucy, There’s A Devil In The Drum:

     Ta relieve my own strain of mind, and as I was curious too about the character of a man who could tell stories in such conditions, I ran round the traverse and visited him. He greeted me with: 'Hello, Old Thing. How is the bloodsome war in your part of the world?'