Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Discolored from coagulation of blood below the surface of the skin.
Wiktionary
- adj. Badly bruised, with discolourations beneath the skin due to coagulation of blood
Examples
“He lifted my right arm, and I saw the black-and-blue marks.”
“She moaned at the sight of the fading black-and-blue marks and mumbled, Poor child.”
“Sometimes the women were there, and so was a kind of distress you didn't understand and didn't particularly want but couldn't resist -- like a black-and-blue mark you can't help pressing, I used to think.”
““You have a black-and-blue mark on the right side of your forehead.””
“The welts and black-and-blue marks on my upper thighs were still quite vivid, especially where Uncle Reuben had pinched me.”
““No,” she says, touching my black-and-blue forehead.”
“With his play this year, Martin has become more than a stopgap—he's a beaten-up, black-and-blue Yankee asset now and in the near future.”
The Wall Street Journal: With Pain Comes Pride for Yankees' Martin
“My assistant, who was having dinner with us, grabbed my knee in the middle of that diatribe and while I thought of going for the steak knife and disemboweling this famous person, my assistant held me down and dug his fingers into my thigh until I was black-and-blue.”
“Occasional black-and-blue marks on her arms and chest she swore she tripped or fell down some steps or walked into a door or got hit by an errant baseball suggested the method Vin used to keep her in line.”
“Her face was black-and-blue and one eye was so swollen it was almost closed.”
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cosmican Meaning: livid
Citation: I was black and blue after a long day's work Nov 19, 2007