vermilion adj.
(Aus.) euph. for bloody adj. (1)
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Bulletin (Sydney) 13 June 22/3: You crimson fool! Shut your gory mouth! Go to vermillion [sic] Hades! | |
| Sun. Times (Perth) 29 Oct. 4/7: The candidate told his audience that they were a lot of cadgers and beer-sparrers, and knew as much about the Wellington street drain as a pink bull knows about a vermilion planet. | |
| Truth (Melbourne) 3 Jan. 11/4: [He] let loose with a long string of vermillion-coloured expletives. |