Definitions for blood-and-thunder

blood-and-thunder blood and thunder

Blood-And-Thunder is a 17 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 1843 anagrams from letters in blood-and-thunder (--abdddehlnnoortu).

Definitions for blood-and-thunder

noun

  1. sensationalism, violence, or exaggerated melodrama:

Origin of blood-and-thunder

First recorded in 1855-60

Examples for blood-and-thunder

That was a regular hair-raiser, as the fellow said when he finished the blood-and-thunder story.

Why, I'm no fighter, Frank—I'm no blood-and-thunder ruffian!

The courtship has been written far and wide with blood-and-thunder pen, attended by lariat-throwing and runaway steeds.

The blood-and-thunder boys' story she had borrowed from Solomon had fallen from her hand and lay unheeded on the grass.

He was in a high fever while he was writing, and the blood-and-thunder Magazine style he adopted did not calm him.

Look at all the blood-and-thunder novels will you, that are turned out every year by the hundred.

He was in a high fever while he was writing, and the blood-and-thunder Magazine diction he adopted did not calm him.

We had never seen that weird species of pumpkin, and Will embroidered a blood-and-thunder narrative.

It must not be thought all the conversation of these two was of this blood-and-thunder variety.

White, or one of the blood-and-thunder raiders, might appear.

Word Value for blood-and-thunder
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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