blutrünstig

From Middle High German bluotrünstec, bluotrunsec (“strongly bleeding”), derived from bluotruns (“strongly bleeding wound”), from bluot (“blood”) + runs (“flow of water”), the latter being related with German rinnen (“to run”, of a fluid). Analysable in modern German as Blut (“blood”) +‎ Runse (“bed of a mountain stream”) +‎ -ig. The word Runse is restricted to Alpine regions, however, and otherwise widely unknown.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbluːtˌʁʏnstɪç/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): /-ˌʁʏnstɪk/ (common form in southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland)

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• Hyphenation: blut‧rüns‧tig

blutrünstig (strong nominative masculine singular blutrünstiger, comparative blutrünstiger, superlative am blutrünstigsten)

1. (of a person or animal) bloodthirsty (eager for bloodshed)

   Synonyms: blutdürstig, mordlustig

2. (of an event) bloodthirsty (involving a lot of bloodshed that is caused by people or animals)
3. (of a text or film, or its maker) gory; bloodthirsty (relishing in the depiction of bloodshed)

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