blue-blooded
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.33 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blue, blooded.
Example Sentences
- "Fario was a withered little man, as ugly as though he were a blue-blooded grandee."
- "But, as I was saying, we listened and heard The Dowd drawl worse than ever. She drops her final g’s like a barmaid or a blue-blooded Aide-de-Camp."
- "The Major was the very type of a blue-blooded old aristocrat; he was all noblesse oblige to those within the magic circle of his intimacy—but alas for those outside it!"
- "When I was thirty-five / It was a very good year / It was a very good year for blue-blooded girls / Of independent means / We'd ride in limousines"
- "The garden snail, a blue-blooded land animal, is sometimes seen as food, sometimes as pest."
Etymology
From blue blood + -ed.
Inflected Forms
more blue-blooded (comparative)
bluer-blooded (comparative, rare)
most blue-blooded (superlative)
bluest-blooded (rare, superlative)
blueblooded (alternative)