bloodful

comparative more bloodful · superlative most bloodful

1. Full of blood.

   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?

   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

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   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!

   [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

   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.

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