In the novel Dracula I came upon this sentence:
"The captain swore polyglot, very polyglot, polyglot with bloom and
blood, but he could do nothing."
Judging by the dictionary definition of polyglot I think it must be related to using multiple languages. But I really can't understand what it means in this context. Nor indeed what the whole sentence must mean.
Best Answer
Note that this is not idiomatic English. The speaker, Van Helsing, is Dutch, and Stoker characterizes him with odd approximations to English, which are supposed to be funny and occasionally are.
Polyglot's easy—as bib and Mark Thorin tell you, the captain swore in many languages. Bloom and blood is made clear earlier in the passage:
Your sentence thus means: