"bloody noun" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From \"blood 'n' 'oun's\", from \"blood and wounds\". Several sources, including Harrison Garman's 1892 A Synopsis of the Reptiles and Amphibians of Illinois, say the frog is so called because \"its peculiar bass notes […] have a fancied resemblance to the expression\" blood and wounds and other similar-sounding and similarly imposing phrases like \"be drowned\".",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bloody nouns",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bloody noun (plural bloody nouns)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
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        },
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        },
        {
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Frogs",
          "orig": "en:Frogs",
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            "Amphibians",
            "Vertebrates",
            "Chordates",
            "Animals",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1850, Edgar Allan Poe, Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling:",
          "text": "\"Ye little spalpeeny frog of a bog-throtting son of a bloody noun!\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1868, F. O. S., of Shreveport, Louisiana, quoted in The Land We Love: A Monthly Magazine; V. 1-6; May 1866-Mar. 1869, page 165",
          "text": "The big fellow was not there, but a keen-eyed little bull-frog had taken his place and he seemed to comprehend the situation at a glance. For he set up the croak, Bloody nouns, played out! played out!! PLAYED OUT!!!"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1898, Henry George, The Science of Political Economy, book 2, page 62, quoting a Philadelphia boy",
          "text": "\"Bloody nouns are the big ones.\"\n[…]\nA name given by boys in Philadelphia to large bullfrogs."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The bullfrog, or the sound made by it."
      ],
      "id": "en-bloody_noun-en-noun-M21Ztu00",
      "links": [
        [
          "bullfrog",
          "bullfrog"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US dialects, now rare) The bullfrog, or the sound made by it."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "bloody-noun"
        },
        {
          "word": "bloodynoun"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "archaic",
        "dialectal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bloody noun"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From \"blood 'n' 'oun's\", from \"blood and wounds\". Several sources, including Harrison Garman's 1892 A Synopsis of the Reptiles and Amphibians of Illinois, say the frog is so called because \"its peculiar bass notes […] have a fancied resemblance to the expression\" blood and wounds and other similar-sounding and similarly imposing phrases like \"be drowned\".",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bloody nouns",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "bloody noun (plural bloody nouns)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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        "American English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English dialectal terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Frogs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1850, Edgar Allan Poe, Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling:",
          "text": "\"Ye little spalpeeny frog of a bog-throtting son of a bloody noun!\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1868, F. O. S., of Shreveport, Louisiana, quoted in The Land We Love: A Monthly Magazine; V. 1-6; May 1866-Mar. 1869, page 165",
          "text": "The big fellow was not there, but a keen-eyed little bull-frog had taken his place and he seemed to comprehend the situation at a glance. For he set up the croak, Bloody nouns, played out! played out!! PLAYED OUT!!!"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1898, Henry George, The Science of Political Economy, book 2, page 62, quoting a Philadelphia boy",
          "text": "\"Bloody nouns are the big ones.\"\n[…]\nA name given by boys in Philadelphia to large bullfrogs."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The bullfrog, or the sound made by it."
      ],
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        [
          "bullfrog",
          "bullfrog"
        ]
      ],
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        "(US dialects, now rare) The bullfrog, or the sound made by it."
      ],
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        "US",
        "archaic",
        "dialectal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "bloody-noun"
    },
    {
      "word": "bloodynoun"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bloody noun"
}