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Definition of bluey in English: blueyadjective ˈbluːi often in combination Almost or partly blue. Example sentencesExamples - It was a print of hibiscus flowers and ferns mixed together… in beautiful greens and bluey greens etc.
- And though I didn't look too long - I'm a shifty character whose eyes can't stay in one spot for very long - I noticed that his bluey eyes freakishly matched the lovely blue of his team shirt…
- Mitchell was wearing a fitting tracksuit in bluey shades and Jewel wore hipster leather pants and a red Spanish style top.
- I'm a turquoisey bluey sort of person so I have shirts and suits and jumpers and teeshirts - that's my favourite colour.
- In appearance, they are rather like a cross between a chub and a herring with a large mouth and a beautiful bluey green sheen to their small silver scales.
- He looked at Toby's dark hair and green eyes and Riley's brown hair and bluey grey eyes and made a mental note to be particularly nasty to both boys.
- She's completely opposite to me, tall, honey brown hair, fiery temper when provoked (We'll that's not much different from me), bluey gray eyes, freckles.
- You turn and look at Alex, noticing the way his bluey black hair curls at the back, and you think he has recently had a haircut.
- Sunlight is kind of bluey, artificial light (like lightbulbs and stuff) is orangey and fluorescent strip lights are greeny.
- Having bluey green nailpolish next to skin tones must confuse the program somehow - my feet now look gangrenous!
- ‘This spinning wheel is a little darling,’ she added, deftly teasing out a skein of deep bluey green yarn - a luxury mixture of mohair, merino and silk.
- On Thursday my inner thigh was an aesthetically pleasing shade of bluey purple.
nounPlural blueys ˈbluːi Australian, NZ dated, informal 1A bundle of possessions carried by a bushman. Example sentencesExamples - After humping his bluey ('about the best life that a fellow could wish for') and briefly trying cane-cutting and station work in Queensland, he worked his passage from Cairns to Sydney and became a coalminer at Coledale, Corrimal and Mount Kembla in the Illawarra district.
- The traveller up-ended his bluey against his knee, gave it an affectionate pat, and then straightened himself up and looked fixedly at the cabman.
- From then on Joe was known to place his bluey against the butt of a tree and talk to it, addressing it as Matilda.
2A nickname for a red-headed person. Example sentencesExamples - In his younger years, he had an uncontrollable thatch of red hair, so everyone called him "Bluey".
- How they got blue from black I will never know but then we call red heads ‘bluey’ too, don't we?
- Australians love ironic nicknames and may call you Bluey because of your red hair.
Rhymes chewy, chop suey, cooee, Dewey, dewy, Drambuie, feng shui, gluey, gooey, hooey, Hughie, Louie, Louis, phooey, rouille, screwy, Wanganui |