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Webster 1913 Edition


Bluey

Blue′y

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Adj.
Bluish.
Southey.

Blue′y

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Noun.
[From
Blue
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Adj.
]
[Australasia]
1.
A bushman’s blanket; – named from its color.

Definition 2024


Bluey

Bluey

See also: bluey

English

Proper noun

Bluey

  1. (Australia, slang) A nickname commonly given to a red-headed person.
    • 1999, Louis Nowra, The Twelfth of Never, page 228,
      He was a freckled red-haired boy called Bluey.
    • 2009, Duke Boyd, Jeff Divine, Steve Pezman, Legends of Surfing: The Greatest Surfriders from Duke Kahanamoku to Kelly Slater, page 24,
      Bluey, who of course was a redhead, started out surfing on his mom's ironing board when he was a grommet of six years of age.
    • 2010, Jeff McMullen, A Life of Extremes, unnumbered page,
      A smile spread slowly across Bluey′s red-whiskered face as the boy went to find his hoe, the one Dad had given him to start a garden in the bush.

Translations

bluey

bluey

See also: Bluey

English

Adjective

bluey (comparative more bluey, superlative most bluey)

  1. Having a colour similar to blue.

Synonyms

Noun

bluey (plural blueys)

  1. (slang) Lead.
  2. (Australian slang) A bushman's blanket.
    • Henry Lawson
      Then we had to wring our blueys which were rotting in the swags, /And we saw the sugar leaking through the bottoms of the bags []
  3. (Australian slang) A collection of clothes and other belongings rolled up into a bundle for carrying; a swag.
    • 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 318:
      ‘Doc’ [] shouldered his bluey and whistled up his lame fox-terrier before formally wishing them all well.
  4. (Australian slang) A blue cattle dog, especially a blue heeler.
  5. (Australian slang) A blue singlet, especially one from the Bonds clothing label.
  6. (Australia) A bluebottle