bloody hell

English

Alternative forms

• bloody 'ell

Pronunciation

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Interjection

bloody hell! (rare in the United States, common in Commonwealth, informal)

1. An expression of dismay, disgust, anger, surprise etc.

   Synonyms: (vulgar) fucking hell; (milder) bleeding hell, chuffing hell, ruddy hell; (minced oath) bloody heck, bleeding heck, flipping heck; (other) bloody Nora; see also Thesaurus:wow

   Bloody hell! My team lost again!

   Bloody hell! Where did you come from, scaring me like that!

   He's not really eating those, is he? Bloody hell! That's disgusting!

   • 2006, Alexandra Ivy, When Darkness Comes‎^[1], page 32:

     Bloody hell, there was little wonder he was distracted. In the past few hours, he had endured more shocks than he had in centuries.

   • 2007, Ingrid Winterbach, translated by Elsa Silke, To Hell with Cronjé, page 55:

     Bloody hell! To hell with Milner. No, Oom Paul said after each new concession, no, no further. Send the troops, Alfred Milner said.

   • 2007, L. H. Maynard, M. P. N. Sims, Demon Eyes, page 145:

     “Bloody hell,” she moaned. “Bloody hell, bloody hell.” Though her hands were trembling, she managed to reload the crossbow just as Sue had told her; then she began to shakily run towards where she thought the sound had come from.

Translations

expression of dismay

• Danish: for fanden, hold da kæft
• Dutch: allemachtig (nl)
• Finnish: voi helvetti
• French: bon sang (fr), merde (fr), purée (fr)
• German: verdammte Scheiße
• Indonesian: sialan bener
• Japanese: 畜生 (ja) (chikushō)
• Maori: āhahā
• Norwegian: fyttirakkern
• Portuguese: raios partam!
• Russian: чёрт побери́ (čort poberí), ёлки-па́лки (jólki-pálki)
• Serbo-Croatian: kvragu!, koji vrag?, (more polite) zaboga! (sh)
• Spanish: joder (es), maldita sea, mierda (es), me cago en la leche (es)
• Swedish: jävla skit

Adverb

bloody hell (not comparable)

1. (informal) Placed after an interrogative term to add emphasis.

   What the bloody hell are you doing here?

Synonyms

• (intensifier): See Thesaurus:the dickens