black and blue

See also: black-and-blue

English

Alternative forms

• black-and-blue (before noun only)

Adjective

black and blue (not comparable)

1. (colloquial, of a person) Having obvious bruises of the skin, typically from falling or being hit or punched.

   My arm is still black and blue from slipping on the ice yesterday.

Translations

covered in bruises

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鼻青脸肿的, 青一块紫一块的

• Dutch: bont en blauw
• Finnish: mustelmilla (fi)
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• German: grün und blau
• Latin: līvidus (la)
• Swedish: gul och blå
• Turkish: mosmor (tr)