bloodspiller

English

Etymology

From blood +‎ spiller.

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Noun

bloodspiller (plural bloodspillers)

1. One who spills blood.
   • 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in Rob Roy. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 271:

     But I maun hear naething about honour—we ken naething here but about credit. Honour is a homicide and a bloodspiller, that gangs about making frays in the street; but Credit is a decent, honest man, that sits at hame and makes the pat play.

   • [19--?], Clarence E[verly] Ray, “The Sand Monuments”, in The Oklahoma Bandits: The Daltons and Their Desperate Gang (Wild West Series; 15), Chicago, Ill.: Regan Publishing Corporation […], →OCLC, page 70:

     I reckon to rush them right out of the way with a charge, firing our Winchesters, and yelling ‘Muerto, filhos de Vittorio!’ for they are of that old sinner’s ancient crew—‘Death to the Apash bloodspillers!’

   • 2006, Will Beall, L.A. Rex, New York, N.Y.: Riverhead Books, →ISBN, page 141:

     Back in the day, Marquez remembered, the Archangel Crips had been as hard as they come, big bailers and broad-daylight bloodspillers, the kind of game you brought in tied spread-eagle to the hood of your black-and-white with sirens wailing—a Frank Buck parade through the hood on your way back to the station—letting the Waziri know you had their backs.

   • 2015, Dan Williams, chapter 24, in The Lords of Absence, Temple, Tex., Dallas, Tex.: Ink Brush Press, →ISBN, page 108:

     The old man had style, making up his own laws, and decreeing who lived and who died. But they were his laws and his words and his melodrama, and without that murderous bunch of bloodspillers he bribed into following him, he wasnt^[sic] much more than a squeaky mouse.