English edit

Etymology edit

Representing a South African pronunciation of bloody.

Adjective edit

blerry (comparative more blerry, superlative most blerry)

  1. (South Africa, slang) Bloody.
    • 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 90:
      “He's not the sort of man you can order about. If He wants you to suffer, you blerry well suffer.”