blood and thunder
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.09 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Violent action and language, especially of a melodramatic kind, or the representation of this, or an aggressive or bad-tempered physical confrontation, typically in a sporting context.
noun
A work of fiction featuring or characterized by bloodshed and violence; a sensationally violent story, drama, etc.
adj
Both melodramatically violent and aggressive; characterized by anger, or forthright ideas and expression.
Example Sentences
- "[…]she could fancy how Thurston was saying to himself: "But what's the good of this? It's blood and thunder we want. The old feller's getting past his work. He must go.""
- "blood-and-thunder stories"
- "Not Buffalo Bill's! He gave us a jack-o'-lantern scare once upon a time, which I don't believe any of us will ever forget. We had never seen that weird species of pumpkin, and Will embroidered a blood-and-thunder narrative."
- ""Your husband is an American. He should be able to keep you well entertained with blood-and-thunder stories," said he."
- "Very sincerely do we wish that at least one of the many romance writers who are so industriously inventing wild-animal blood-and-thunder stories would do more work with his eyes and less with his imagination."
- "Strap following, with the knapsack on his back, chanced to take the other side, and, by a jolt of the carriage, pitched directly upon the stomach of the captain, who bellowed out, in a most dreadful manner, “Blood and thunder! where’s my sword?”"