Sentence Meaning – Understanding ‘No She Bludgering Well Won’t!’

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"She's only Stunned," said Professor McGonagall impatiently, who had stooped down to examine Alecto. "She'll be perfectly all right."

"No she bludgering well won't!" bellowed Amycus. "Not after the Dark Lord gets hold of her! She's gorn and sent for him, I felt me Mark burn, and he thinks we've got Potter!"

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

I feel Amycus spoke a dialect here because I saw the use of 'gorn' and "me Mark", which I think should be 'gone' and "my Mark" in standard English. (Correct?)

However, I can't figure out how "No she bludgering well won't!" works here. How should we understand it?

Best Answer

No she bludgering well won't!

From what I understand, a bludger is a kind of ball in the wizarding world. However, here, bludgering looks like a euphemism/minced oath for bloody:

→ No she bloody well won't!

Bloody well is an idiom:

bloody well idiom
Definition of bloody well

British, informal + sometimes offensive —used before a verb to stress anger, annoyance, or disapproval
// I'm your father and you'll bloody well do as you're told!
(M-W)

In other words, the speaker is emphatically exclaiming "No she won't!"

I think you're right about "gone" and "my" being the standard English.

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