Chiefly British informal for someone who is deliberately uncooperative or obstinate for its own sake.
Chiefly British informal for someone who is deliberately uncooperative or obstinate for its own sake. The older literal sense of being inclined toward bloodshed still exists but is far less common; in everyday British speech the word almost exclusively conveys wilful awkwardness and contrarianism.
He was being completely bloody-minded about the seating plan, rejecting every suggestion just to cause trouble.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(chiefly, UK, informal) ; stubborn.
“Iran war live: Trump threatens ‘much higher level’ attacks if no deal www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo... Same bloody-minded bluster as ever, from our gangster President”
for or wanting blood.