bloody flux

noun

1. dysentery.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bloody flux¹

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

Example Sentences

Johnson writes, “Hollywood representations of pirates and privateers tend to focus on the battle scenes, with cannonballs firing and elaborate sword fights on deck, but the reality of life at sea during this period was that you were more likely to die from the ‘bloody flux’ — as dysentery was called back then — than you were to be struck down in armed conflict.”

From Washington Post

We had a one-day flux, which we feared was a bloody flux.

From Literature

“Afterward the Green Grace was impaled upon a stake in the Plaza of Punishment and left until she died. In the pyramid of Ullhor, the survivors had a great feast that lasted half the night, and washed the last of their food down with poison wine so none need wake again come morning. Soon after came the sickness, a bloody flux that killed three men of every four, until a mob of dying men went mad and slew the guards on the main gate.”

From Literature

“Your Grace, I have known the bloody flux to destroy whole armies when left to spread unchecked. The seneschal is right. We cannot have the Astapori in Meereen.”

From Literature

“The bloody flux has been the bane of every army since the Dawn Age. Let us distribute the food, Your Grace.”

From Literature