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(South Africa, slang) Bloody.
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- blerrie85%
(South Africa) bloody (intensifier).
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(South Africa) bloody (intensifier).
- bleddy80%
(South Africa, Cornwall) bloody.
- blerrie78%
South African slang for 'bloody,' used as an intensifier across a wide range of emotions — frustration, surprise, admiration, or pure exasperation. It's a phonetic respelling that reflects the Afrikaans accent's influence on South African English. You'll hear 'blerrie' in homes, on sports fields, and at braais across the country. It carries a warm, characteristically South African irreverence and is one of the most recognizable hallmarks of Cape slang.
- bleddy72%
Bleddy is a softened, phonetically spelled variant of 'bloody' — the classic British and South African mild oath and intensifier. Found in both Cornish dialect (southwest England) and South African English, it's the same word with a regional accent baked right into the spelling. It adds emphasis the way 'bloody' always has: 'bleddy hell', 'bleddy brilliant', 'bleddy nuisance'. It's warm, identifiably regional, and carries far more personality than just writing 'very'.