bluey
see also: Bluey
Pronunciation
Bluey
Proper noun
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see also: Bluey
Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈblu.i/
bluey
- Having a colour similar to blue.
bluey
- (slang) The metal lead.
- (Australian slang) A bushman's blanket.
- 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 […]
- (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.
- 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 318:
- (Australian slang) A blue cattle dog, especially a blue heeler.
- (Australian slang) A blue singlet, especially one from the Bonds clothing label.
- (AU) A bluebottle.
- (Australia, medicine) A disposable underpad.
- (informal) A blue film.
- (Australian slang) A terminology from WW1 for a person with red hair.
Bluey
Proper noun
- (Australia, slang) A nickname commonly given to a red-headed person.
- 2009, Duke Boyd, Jeff Divine, Steve Pezman, Legends of Surfing: The Greatest Surfriders from Duke Kahanamoku to Kelly Slater, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=gc54QCRCypIC&pg=PA24&dq=%22Bluey%22+-intitle:%22Bluey%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=38j5TsH9CoXgmAWUlJW5Dg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Bluey%22%20-intitle%3A%22Bluey%22&f=false 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, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=AzcMjr33_q4C&pg=PT4&dq=%22Bluey%22+red+OR+hair+OR+redhead+-intitle:%22Bluey%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mc35TvPyM6XymAXC4dCYAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Bluey%22%20red%20OR%20hair%20OR%20redhead%20-intitle%3A%22Bluey%22&f=false 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.
- 2009, Duke Boyd, Jeff Divine, Steve Pezman, Legends of Surfing: The Greatest Surfriders from Duke Kahanamoku to Kelly Slater, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=gc54QCRCypIC&pg=PA24&dq=%22Bluey%22+-intitle:%22Bluey%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=38j5TsH9CoXgmAWUlJW5Dg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Bluey%22%20-intitle%3A%22Bluey%22&f=false page 24],
- French: Poil de carotte
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