Definition of bleeding
chiefly British, informal + sometimes offensive
—used like bloody or damned as a generalized intensive One fan said: "What the bleeding hell happened???"— Charlotte TuttonI said, "Shirley, your house is on fire!" She looked at me and said, "Michael, that's the pool. That's steam." I was such a bleeding idiot, such a putz.— Michael Caine
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The first known use of bleeding was in 1839
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