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Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Look up bloody in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Use of the adjective bloody as a profane intensifier predates the 18th century. Its ultimate origin is unclear, and several hypotheses have been suggested. The word “blood” in Dutch and German is used as part of minced oaths, in abbreviation of expressions referring to “God’s blood”, i. A popularly reported theory suggested euphemistic derivation from the phrase by Our Lady. The Oxford English Dictionary prefers the theory that it arose from aristocratic rowdies known as “bloods”, hence “bloody drunk” means “drunk as a blood”.