OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 26889

bloodthirsty

/ˈblʌdθəːsti/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
sanguinario
Thirsty for blood: inexorably violent or eager for bloodshed; murderous.
The Lord Mayor, in the stronghold of the mighty Mansion House, gave orders to his fifty cooks and butlers to keep Christmas as a Lord Mayor's household should; and even the little…
[…] Diodorus also relates of Caligula, predecessor to Nero, that his nurse used to moisten the nipples of her breast frequently with blood to make Caligula take the better hold of…
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