BLACK AND BLUE

Definition: BLACK AND BLUE

BLACK AND BLUE

1. The dark color of a bruise in the flesh, which is accompanied with a mixture of blue. ``To pinch the slatterns black and blue.'' --Hudibras.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Punishment

Strike; deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite; slap, slap the face; smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge, buffet; thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor; lace, lace one's jacket; dress, dress down, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue; beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly; give a black eye.

Crosswords: BLACK AND BLUE

Now I'm getting black and blue marks all over my butt, and my moms starting to get uptight about them! (Jaws 2; writing credit: Carl Gottlieb; Howard Sackler)

Hey, guys, my balls are black and blue. (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond)

Seems the dreams she had have all turned black and blue (Birmingham; performing artist: Amanda Marshall)

This monkey can't stand to see you black and blue (Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover; performing artist: Sophie B. Hawkins)

A Rhapsody in Black and Blue (1932)

Black and Blue (1923)

Rebus: Black and Blue (2000)

Black and Blue (1980)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Black and Blue Magic (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Her skin showed here and there, and black and blue could be distinguished, which indicated the places where the Thenardiess had touched her.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "BLACK AND BLUE": beat black and blue ♦ beat smb. black and blue. Additional references.

Albanian

vula-vula, tërë vurrata. (various references)

Arabic 

‏كدمة (black eye, bruise, bump, contusion), ‏مكدوم (bruised, contused), ‏أسود مزرق. (various references)

Bulgarian 

покрит със синини. (various references)

Chinese 

遍�"鱗傷 (be a mass of bruises, beaten black and blue, covered all over with cuts and bruises). (various references)

Czech

samá modřina. (various references)

Finnish

piestä joku pahanpäiväiseksi (beat black and blue), on mustelmilla (is black and blue). (various references)

German

windelweich schlagen (beat black and blue). (various references)

Greek 

μελανιασμένοσ στο ξύλο. (various references)

Hebrew 

חבול (tied, wounded). (various references)

Hungarian

véraláfutásos (bloodshot), kékzöld foltokkal teli. (various references)

Italian

livido (ashen, bruise, livid, lurid). (various references)

Manx

condoo. (various references)

Pig Latin

ackblay anday ueblay

Romanian

bumbãci (beat smb. black and blue, sandbag, wad), trage cuiva o sfântã de bãtaie (beat smb. black and blue), stinge în bãtaie (beat smb. black and blue), stâlci în bãtaie pe cineva (beat smb. black and blue), stâlci (beat smb. black and blue, belabour, bruise, distort, drub, flog, murder, whack, whip), snopi pe cineva în bãtãi (beat smb. black and blue), rade barbã cuiva (beat smb. black and blue), freca cuiva ridichea (beat smb. black and blue), face pe cineva turtã (beat smb. black and blue), deşela (beat smb. black and blue, harass), da ca la fasole (beat smb. black and blue), cotonogi (beat smb. black and blue, Lam, welt, whop), a-i rupe cuiva ciolanele (beat smb. black and blue), a-i face cuiva spinarea tobã (beat smb. black and blue, tan smb.'s hide), învineţi spinarea cuiva (beat smb. black and blue). (various references)

Russian 

синяк (bruise, extravasation). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

osoba u modricama, masnicama. (various references)

Spanish

lleno de cardenales, amoratado (blue), acardenalado. (various references)

Swedish

blåslagen, pryglad. (various references)

Thai

บอบช้ำ (ทางอารม�"์หรือร่างกาย), รอยฟกช้ำ�"ำเขียว. (various references)

Turkish

mosmor (livid), morarmış (black, blue, livid), çürümüş (blue, carious, decayed, decomposed, putrefacient, putrefactive, rotten, went bad). (various references)

Ukranian 

весь у синцях. (various references)

Agrostis alba aut.var.gigantea, Agrostis gigantea Roth, Mniotilta varia, Mustela nigripes. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: blackland, blacklead, calendula.

-4 letters: backbend, backland, balanced, bankable, beanball, buckbean, bullneck, caballed, calendal, canalled, clubable, laudable, unbacked, uncalled.

-5 letters: alcalde, balance, ballade, balneal, bandeau, baulked, blacked, blacken, blanked, buckled, bullace, canaled, candela, canella, canulae, caulked, clanked, clubbed, clunked, decanal, lacunae, lacunal, nucleal, unbaked, uncaked, unlaced.

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