- bloodshotten
- blood·shot·ten
English syllables. 2014.
bloodshotten
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bloodshotten — ˈbləd|shätən adjective Etymology: blood + shotten, obsolete past participle of shoot now dialect : bloodshot … Useful english dictionary
bloodshot — (adj.) also blood shot, 1550s, short for bloodshotten (c.1500), from BLOOD (Cf. blood) (n.) + old pp. of SHOOT (Cf. shoot) … Etymology dictionary
blood|shot — «BLUHD SHOT», adjective. (of the eyes) red and sore from inflamed blood vessels: »A cinder in his eye made it bloodshot. ╂[earlier bloodshotten < blood + shotten suffused with, earlier past participle of shoot] … Useful english dictionary
