bloody mary

Questions about bloody mary

What does bloody mary mean?

bloody mary means "daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon who was Queen of England from 1553 to 1558; she was the wife of Philip II of Spain and when she restored Roman Catholicism to England many Protestants were burned at the stake as heretics (1516-1558)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for bloody mary?

Close synonyms include Mary I, Mary Tudor. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bloody mary a common word?

bloody mary is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.