Talk:bloodynoun

Century lemmatizes the alt form bloodnoun, which however seems to be so much rarer that it may not even meet CFI. I can find one citation: There is also this citation of unlcear meaning: This is the general exclamation: As to the geographic distribution there are these references: - -sche (discuss) 02:57, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
 * 2000, Jeffery Deaver, The Empty Chair: A Novel (ISBN 0743211650), page 119:
 * You sit here at night, listen to the cicada and the bloodnouns—you know, the bullfrogs.
 * 1894, Robert Blatchford, A Son of the Forge, page 84:
 * but kape up yere pecker, an' if mesilf an' owld Blood 'n Ouns can assist yez the ivil a fear but we're the boys to thry.
 * 1891, The Dear Little Shamrock, in Reilly's 400 / Judge's Library: A Monthly Magazine of Fun, number 24, page 24:
 * An' shure, whin 'tis shpied by th' Amerikin aigle,
 * Blood'nouns! but he'll choke himself scraitchin' the brogue.
 * Robert Hendrickson, The Facts on File Dictionary of American Regionalisms (2000, ISBN 1438129920), page 24: bloodnoun A bullfrog, chiefly in South Carolina. Also heard as bloody-noun.
 * 1894 Transactions of the American Philological Association: A curious survival of this phrase appears in the name blood-nouns, sometimes bloody-nouns, applied by boys in the city of Washington some years ago, and I dare say now, to bull-frogs.