bloodful

English

Etymology

From blood +‎ -ful.

Adjective

bloodful (comparative more bloodful, superlative most bloodful)

1. Full of blood.
   • [1890?], I[saac] R[uth] Sherwood, “The Grayback”, in Cha[rle]s L. Cummings, compiler, The Great War Relic. Together with a Sketch of My Life, Service in the Army, and How I Lost My Feet since the War, Also, Many Interesting Incidents Illustrative of the Life of a Soldier., →OCLC, page 27, column 2:

     Oh, cruel, bloodful chum of awful war, / Of soldier ills the most pestiferous, far; / Oh, crawling, creeping, clawing, biting pest, / Of camp and bivouac, the bane of rest!

   • 2009, Tad Williams, “A Stark and Wormy Knight”, in Jack Dann, Gardner Dozois, editors, The Dragon Book, New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 232:

     But Mam, Mam, what about that stark and wormy Sir Libogran, that . . . dragocidal maniac? Did he really live hoppishly ever after as well, unhaunted by his bloodful crime?

   • 2012, Mandy Keifetz, “Perfect”, in Flea Circus: A Brief Bestiary of Grief, Kalamazoo, Mich.: New Issues Poetry & Prose, →ISBN, pages 134–135:

     The European rabbit flea (Spilopsyllus cuniculi Dale) confines itself, absolutely, to the European rabbit. For that matter, it confines itself, almost exclusively, to the rabbit’s thin-skinned, bloodful ears.