Is bloody hell a swear word?

Answer 1

Bloody used to be a swear word in England but has now evolved. It was said to be used by Queen Elizabeth I to refer to her sister as Bloody Mary for the Queen Mary Tudor has killed many Protestants. It was originally used to describe horrible situation that can cause a bloody sight, then switch to a commonly used "swear" word.

Now it isn't much used as a swear word.

Answer 2

A word is considered swearing depending on the culture. Not every society regards the word 'bloody' as swearing. By way of example: the word 'bastard' is in common usage in Australia and no one there sees it as improper whereas in the UK it would be. __________________________________________________________________ Eric Partridge reports 'bloody' was "respectable" before c.1750, and it was used by Fielding and Swift, but heavily tabooed c.1750 through 1920, perhaps from imagined association with menstruation(?); Ben Johnson calls it "very vulgar," and OED first edition writes of it, "now constantly in the mouths of the most low classes, but by respectable people considered 'a horrid word', on par with obscene or profane language." Shaw shocked theatergoers when he put it in the mouth of Eliza Doolittle in "Pygmalion" (1914), and for a time the word was known euphemistically as "the Shavian adjective." It was avoided in print as late as 1936. There exists theory that, similarly toward 'zounds' as an alternative to 'God's bloody wounds', that 'bloody' was a similar contraction from 'bloody hands and feet'

Answer 3

in England its used more as an exclamation, but in America yes it is. And Ron Weasly says it in The Harry Potter books and movies, so it is not that bad.

Answer 4

kind of since it supposedly refers to bloody mary