英语词汇“blue”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

blue1

/bluː

adjective (bluer, bluest)

1Of a colour intermediate between green and violet, as of the sky or sea on a sunny day: the clear blue sky a blue silk shirt deep blue eyes...

The painting shows a Victorian scene in green, pink and blue colours on a cream background.
The chameleon is sometimes green, sometimes blue, it is all colours by turn, and sometimes it is absolutely colourless.
Water of different depth shows different colours in the sunshine such as yellow, green, blue and transparent.

Synonyms

sky-blue, azure, cobalt (blue), sapphire, cerulean, navy (blue), saxe (blue), Oxford blue, Cambridge blue, ultramarine, lapis lazuli, indigo, aquamarine, turquoise, teal (blue), cyan, of the colour of the sky, of the colour of the sea

1.1(Of a person’s skin) having turned blue as a result of cold or breathing difficulties: Ashley went blue and I panicked...

There may also be obvious cyanosis (when the lips and/or skin appears blue due to lack of oxygen in the blood).
Victims suffered from acute cyanosis, a blue discoloration of the skin and mucous membranes.
She turned blue whenever she cried, and the doctor said it would be a miracle if she lived past her first month.

1.2(Of a bird or other animal) having blue markings: a blue jay...

Animals include duikers, eland and colobus, vervet and blue monkeys.
According to zoology, the origin of blue bull is not traced to the species of cow.
I should have told you in previous episodes that anger is characterised by a red bear, sloth by a light blue goat, and avarice by a yellow frog.

1.3(Of a cat, fox, or rabbit) having fur of a smoky grey colour: the blue fox...

She admires the drawing above the oven: a drawing of the blue fox howling at the moon.
He grabs the shredded pieces of his drawing: the blue fox howling at the moon.
He was a blue cat named Paul, a sweet little fellow with a pleasant disposition.

1.4(Of a ski run) of the second-lowest level of difficulty, as indicated by blue markers positioned along it.There are just a few chair lifts that end where the blue trail crosses the cliff....

And to return to the southern lodge, forget it, you are forced with either a black trail or a long and very challenging blue trail.
Last year the trail was rated blue (moderate) and the rating for this next year is not decided yet.

1.5 Physics Denoting one of three colours of quark.So for instance, we could start off with a red quark, which emits a red-antiblue gluon and becomes a blue quark....

For example, if absorption of a gluon changes a blue quark into a red quark, then the gluon itself must have carried one unit of red charge and minus one unit of blue charge.
This blue quark will become red and the original red quark will become blue.

2 informal (Of a person or mood) melancholy, sad, or depressed: he’s feeling blue...

Deep in their own blue mood, they're unaffected by people or events that are going on around them.
The blue mood of yesterday seems to have lifted a little.
Maybe the rain brings more blue mood for me and a three year anniversary reminds me to look back to see what happened in the days before.

Synonyms

depressed, down, sad, saddened, unhappy, melancholy, miserable, sorrowful, gloomy, dejected, downhearted, disheartened, despondent, dispirited, low, in low spirits, low-spirited, heavy-hearted, glum, morose, dismal, downcast, cast down, tearful

informal down in the dumps, down in the mouth, fed up

3 informal (Of a film, joke, or story) having sexual or pornographic content: a blue movie...

Video cassettes showing blue films and cinema houses lost out to the village gurdwara.
We have the same sort of content as the women's classes but there is the odd slightly blue joke, too.
Would you be content with watching a blue movie instead of doing the real thing?

Synonyms

indecent, dirty, rude, coarse, vulgar, bawdy, lewd, racy, risqué, salacious, naughty, wicked, improper, unseemly, smutty, spicy, raw, off colour, ribald, Rabelaisian;

pornographic, filthy, obscene, offensive, prurient, sordid, low, profane, foul, vile;

erotic, arousing, sexy, suggestive, titillating, explicit

informal near the knuckle/bone, nudge-nudge, porn, porno, X-rated, raunchy, skin

British informal fruity, saucy

euphemistic adult

4British informal Politically conservative: the successful blue candidate...

But given the complexities of blue camp politics we have to ask: On a roll to where?
The blue political parties, meanwhile, are closing the floodgates with all their might.
‘All over the country, communities have voted blue and gone green,’ he said.

noun

1 [mass noun] Blue colour or pigment: she was dressed in blue the dark blue of his eyes [count noun]: armchairs in pastel blues and greens...

As one would stare upwards, the sky would change from red, to orange, to green, to dark blue, to royal purple.
Using strong colours like dark blue, deep reds and yellows, her work is certainly striking.
All samples are shown at the same magnification, with spindles in green and DNA in blue.

1.1Blue clothes or material: Susan wore blue...

The old man was robed in deep blue with a cloak of the same purple the guards wore.
Andrew, wearing all blue, created by metallic clothing, walks into a small office.
She wore a gown of startling blue, hinting that her name should have been Sapphire.

1.2The blue ball in snooker, billiards, and similar games.

1.3 another term for bluing.

1.4 (the blue) literary The sky or sea, or the unknown: far out upon the blue were many sails

2 [usually with modifier] A small butterfly, the male of which is predominantly blue while the female is typically brown.

Numerous genera in the family Lycaenidae.

The male blues show much more interest in these yellow bushes....

As caterpillars, the blues are carefully cleaned and fed.
A cool day in midsummer is always a good day to watch blues taking shelter in the grass.

3British A person who has represented Cambridge University (a Cambridge blue) or Oxford University (an Oxford blue) at a particular sport in a match between the two universities: a flyweight boxing blue...

An accomplished swimmer since his schooldays, David was a university blue in water polo and later served the sport in other capacities.
At university he was a double blue in swimming and soccer.
He could spring the surprise shock of the season by beating the blues at Stamford Bridge but you would need to believe in miracles as well as the tooth fairy for that!

3.1A distinction awarded to a Cambridge blue or an Oxford blue: Adrian’s brother won a rugby blue in December...

He has a rugby blue, and he does not bother to list either distinction in his Who's Who entry because he also possesses the virtue of restraint.
He ended up with all sorts of blues when he went to university, different sports.
His main sport was the unglamorous pursuit of golf, for which he gained a blue at Oxford.

4Australian /NZ informal An argument or fight: did you have a blue or what?...

I can honestly say that I never started a blue, but my stupid pig-headed nature would not allow me to back down.
He told me that Crystal and himself had had a blue with a taxi driver as well, not as big a blue as I had with mine, but a blue all the same.
He then joined the fracas, slipping in two or three good blows before the blue was broken up.

1940s: perhaps by association with phrases such as make the air blue, alluding to swearing

5Australian /NZ informal A mistake: his tactical blue in saying the opposition wasn’t ready to govern...

Has Frank made a blue when compiling his stats?
What about a Prime Minister who calls them as he sees them and if he's made a blue just be man enough to come into the House of Representatives and say, ‘Look, a bit of a mistake here, here's correction of the parliamentary record.’
I used to be bemused how left wingers have an incapability to ever admit they made a blue.

6Australian /NZ informal A nickname for a red-headed person: only an Aussie could make a red-headed man ‘Blue.’...

The flight attendants crack jokes, the check-in staff actually smile and even the airline's name for its red-and-white planes is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the Aussie habit of calling redheads "Blue''.
Hey red, in Australia we call redheads ‘blue’ or ‘bluey’.

1930s: of unknown origin

7British informal A supporter of the Conservative Party.Amid all the hysteria over ‘hug a hoodie’, he has been falling over himself to show how environmentally friendly he is, that the Blues are the Greenest party ever to exist....

The Blues are also the largest party in Vale Royal where all the seats up for election and the count is on Friday.

verb (blues, bluing or blueing, blued)

1Make or become blue: [with object]: the light dims, bluing the retina (as adjective blued) blued paper [no object]: the day would haze, the air bluing with afternoon...

I was up all night listening to music when a light blued the east, announcing the season of breakfast.
The atmosphere in this video is darkened yet strangely luminous, the video palette seemingly blued and grayed.
All there were were tiny wisps of clouds now and the whole area had blued out.

1.1 [with object] Heat (metal) so as to give it a greyish-blue finish: (as adjective blued) nickel-plated or blued hooks...

All in all, it is an attractive rifle, with nicely blued metal contrasting with an attractive piece of walnut.
The hammer, trigger, and trigger guard are also blued to a mirror-like finish, and the sides of the frame sport a somewhat subdued finish, contrasting nicely with the rest of the gun.
Having owned several and examined many others I see no difference in terms of overall fit and finish, metal polishing and bluing, or action smoothness.

2 [with object] chiefly historical Wash (white clothes) with bluing: they blued the shirts and starched the uniforms...

She would blue the laundry / For the children.
Washing was a long involved process which started with making the soap using lye, lard and ashes, then scrubbing, boiling, rinsing and bluing the clothes in huge outdoor vats of water.
A couple of wooden benches at the side of the house in the shade held 3 big galvanized iron tubs for washing, rinsing and bluing the clothes, and a tin dish for the starch.

Phrases

blue on blue

bung (or stack) on a blue

do something until (or till) one is blue in the face

out of the blue

talk a blue streak

Derivatives

blueness

/ˈbluːnəs

/ noun ...

But the real high point is nothing, really - just a moment when he forgets all his tensions about red carpets and movies, and suddenly notices a beautiful old Edwardian boat moored in the unbelievable blueness of the bay.
The blueness of the glass and the sunshine works really well with the wave.
Above the rows of houses, the blueness brings hope.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French bleu, ultimately of Germanic origin and related to Old English blǣwen 'blue' and Old Norse blár 'dark blue' (see also blaeberry).

The English blue and French bleu are ultimately the same word, which goes back to ancient Germanic and is related to the blae- in blaeberry (Middle English), a Scottish and northern English name for the bilberry (late 16th century). Blue occurs in a number of phrases, in particular those relating either to depression and melancholy or to the blue of the sky, as in out of the blue, ‘as a total surprise’. See also bolt. Something occurring once in a blue moon is something very rare. A blue moon sounds fanciful but it is a phenomenon that does occur occasionally, due to large amounts of dust or smoke in the atmosphere. A particularly Australian use of blue is as a humorous nickname for a red-haired person. This is first recorded in 1932, although bluey is earlier, from 1906.
Depression or melancholy have always been around, but no one called these feelings the blues until the mid 18th century, although people have been feeling blue since as early as the 1580s. The blues was a contraction of blue devils, which were originally baleful demons punishing sinners. In the 18th century people fancifully imagined them to be behind depression, and later also to be the apparitions seen by alcoholics in delirium tremens. The first printed record of the name of the melancholic music style is in the ‘Memphis Blues’ of 1912, by the American musician W. C. Handy, who later set up his own music-publishing house and transcribed many traditional blues. Its later development, rhythm and blues, appeared in the 1930s.
Obscene or smutty material has been known as blue since the mid 19th century. The link may be the blue gowns that prostitutes used to wear in prison, or the blue pencil traditionally used by censors.
Blue-chip shares are considered to be a reliable investment, though less secure than gilt-edged stock (used since the later 19th century for government stock, and earlier to suggest excellent quality). Blue chips are high-value counters used in the game of poker. In America a blue-collar worker (mid 20th century) is someone who works in a manual trade, especially in industry, as opposed to a white-collar worker (early 20th century) in the cleaner environment of an office. A blueprint (late 19th century) gets its name from a process in which prints were composed of white lines on a blue ground or of blue lines on a white ground. See also murder

Rhymes

blue2

/bluː

verb (blues, bluing or blueing, blued) British informal, dated

Squander or recklessly spend (money).It doesn't matter which sum you will transfer (1 $, 10$or 100$) because you don't blue your money, you save human life!...

It is again time to break open a bottle of bubbly and to blue our money till kingdom comes.

Origin

Mid 19th century: perhaps a variant of blow¹.

单词	blue
释义	blue1 /bluː / adjective (bluer, bluest) 1Of a colour intermediate between green and violet, as of the sky or sea on a sunny day: the clear blue sky a blue silk shirt deep blue eyes... The painting shows a Victorian scene in green, pink and blue colours on a cream background. The chameleon is sometimes green, sometimes blue, it is all colours by turn, and sometimes it is absolutely colourless. Water of different depth shows different colours in the sunshine such as yellow, green, blue and transparent. Synonyms sky-blue, azure, cobalt (blue), sapphire, cerulean, navy (blue), saxe (blue), Oxford blue, Cambridge blue, ultramarine, lapis lazuli, indigo, aquamarine, turquoise, teal (blue), cyan, of the colour of the sky, of the colour of the sea 1.1(Of a person’s skin) having turned blue as a result of cold or breathing difficulties: Ashley went blue and I panicked... There may also be obvious cyanosis (when the lips and/or skin appears blue due to lack of oxygen in the blood). Victims suffered from acute cyanosis, a blue discoloration of the skin and mucous membranes. She turned blue whenever she cried, and the doctor said it would be a miracle if she lived past her first month. 1.2(Of a bird or other animal) having blue markings: a blue jay... Animals include duikers, eland and colobus, vervet and blue monkeys. According to zoology, the origin of blue bull is not traced to the species of cow. I should have told you in previous episodes that anger is characterised by a red bear, sloth by a light blue goat, and avarice by a yellow frog. 1.3(Of a cat, fox, or rabbit) having fur of a smoky grey colour: the blue fox... She admires the drawing above the oven: a drawing of the blue fox howling at the moon. He grabs the shredded pieces of his drawing: the blue fox howling at the moon. He was a blue cat named Paul, a sweet little fellow with a pleasant disposition. 1.4(Of a ski run) of the second-lowest level of difficulty, as indicated by blue markers positioned along it.There are just a few chair lifts that end where the blue trail crosses the cliff.... And to return to the southern lodge, forget it, you are forced with either a black trail or a long and very challenging blue trail. Last year the trail was rated blue (moderate) and the rating for this next year is not decided yet. 1.5 Physics Denoting one of three colours of quark.So for instance, we could start off with a red quark, which emits a red-antiblue gluon and becomes a blue quark.... For example, if absorption of a gluon changes a blue quark into a red quark, then the gluon itself must have carried one unit of red charge and minus one unit of blue charge. This blue quark will become red and the original red quark will become blue. 2 informal (Of a person or mood) melancholy, sad, or depressed: he’s feeling blue... Deep in their own blue mood, they're unaffected by people or events that are going on around them. The blue mood of yesterday seems to have lifted a little. Maybe the rain brings more blue mood for me and a three year anniversary reminds me to look back to see what happened in the days before. Synonyms depressed, down, sad, saddened, unhappy, melancholy, miserable, sorrowful, gloomy, dejected, downhearted, disheartened, despondent, dispirited, low, in low spirits, low-spirited, heavy-hearted, glum, morose, dismal, downcast, cast down, tearful informal down in the dumps, down in the mouth, fed up 3 informal (Of a film, joke, or story) having sexual or pornographic content: a blue movie... Video cassettes showing blue films and cinema houses lost out to the village gurdwara. We have the same sort of content as the women's classes but there is the odd slightly blue joke, too. Would you be content with watching a blue movie instead of doing the real thing? Synonyms indecent, dirty, rude, coarse, vulgar, bawdy, lewd, racy, risqué, salacious, naughty, wicked, improper, unseemly, smutty, spicy, raw, off colour, ribald, Rabelaisian; pornographic, filthy, obscene, offensive, prurient, sordid, low, profane, foul, vile; erotic, arousing, sexy, suggestive, titillating, explicit informal near the knuckle/bone, nudge-nudge, porn, porno, X-rated, raunchy, skin British informal fruity, saucy euphemistic adult 4British informal Politically conservative: the successful blue candidate... But given the complexities of blue camp politics we have to ask: On a roll to where? The blue political parties, meanwhile, are closing the floodgates with all their might. ‘All over the country, communities have voted blue and gone green,’ he said. noun 1 [mass noun] Blue colour or pigment: she was dressed in blue the dark blue of his eyes [count noun]: armchairs in pastel blues and greens... As one would stare upwards, the sky would change from red, to orange, to green, to dark blue, to royal purple. Using strong colours like dark blue, deep reds and yellows, her work is certainly striking. All samples are shown at the same magnification, with spindles in green and DNA in blue. 1.1Blue clothes or material: Susan wore blue... The old man was robed in deep blue with a cloak of the same purple the guards wore. Andrew, wearing all blue, created by metallic clothing, walks into a small office. She wore a gown of startling blue, hinting that her name should have been Sapphire. 1.2The blue ball in snooker, billiards, and similar games. 1.3 another term for bluing. 1.4 (the blue) literary The sky or sea, or the unknown: far out upon the blue were many sails 2 [usually with modifier] A small butterfly, the male of which is predominantly blue while the female is typically brown. Numerous genera in the family Lycaenidae. The male blues show much more interest in these yellow bushes.... As caterpillars, the blues are carefully cleaned and fed. A cool day in midsummer is always a good day to watch blues taking shelter in the grass. 3British A person who has represented Cambridge University (a Cambridge blue) or Oxford University (an Oxford blue) at a particular sport in a match between the two universities: a flyweight boxing blue... An accomplished swimmer since his schooldays, David was a university blue in water polo and later served the sport in other capacities. At university he was a double blue in swimming and soccer. He could spring the surprise shock of the season by beating the blues at Stamford Bridge but you would need to believe in miracles as well as the tooth fairy for that! 3.1A distinction awarded to a Cambridge blue or an Oxford blue: Adrian’s brother won a rugby blue in December... He has a rugby blue, and he does not bother to list either distinction in his Who's Who entry because he also possesses the virtue of restraint. He ended up with all sorts of blues when he went to university, different sports. His main sport was the unglamorous pursuit of golf, for which he gained a blue at Oxford. 4Australian /NZ informal An argument or fight: did you have a blue or what?... I can honestly say that I never started a blue, but my stupid pig-headed nature would not allow me to back down. He told me that Crystal and himself had had a blue with a taxi driver as well, not as big a blue as I had with mine, but a blue all the same. He then joined the fracas, slipping in two or three good blows before the blue was broken up. 1940s: perhaps by association with phrases such as make the air blue, alluding to swearing 5Australian /NZ informal A mistake: his tactical blue in saying the opposition wasn’t ready to govern... Has Frank made a blue when compiling his stats? What about a Prime Minister who calls them as he sees them and if he's made a blue just be man enough to come into the House of Representatives and say, ‘Look, a bit of a mistake here, here's correction of the parliamentary record.’ I used to be bemused how left wingers have an incapability to ever admit they made a blue. 6Australian /NZ informal A nickname for a red-headed person: only an Aussie could make a red-headed man ‘Blue.’... The flight attendants crack jokes, the check-in staff actually smile and even the airline's name for its red-and-white planes is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the Aussie habit of calling redheads "Blue''. Hey red, in Australia we call redheads ‘blue’ or ‘bluey’. 1930s: of unknown origin 7British informal A supporter of the Conservative Party.Amid all the hysteria over ‘hug a hoodie’, he has been falling over himself to show how environmentally friendly he is, that the Blues are the Greenest party ever to exist.... The Blues are also the largest party in Vale Royal where all the seats up for election and the count is on Friday. verb (blues, bluing or blueing, blued) 1Make or become blue: [with object]: the light dims, bluing the retina (as adjective blued) blued paper [no object]: the day would haze, the air bluing with afternoon... I was up all night listening to music when a light blued the east, announcing the season of breakfast. The atmosphere in this video is darkened yet strangely luminous, the video palette seemingly blued and grayed. All there were were tiny wisps of clouds now and the whole area had blued out. 1.1 [with object] Heat (metal) so as to give it a greyish-blue finish: (as adjective blued) nickel-plated or blued hooks... All in all, it is an attractive rifle, with nicely blued metal contrasting with an attractive piece of walnut. The hammer, trigger, and trigger guard are also blued to a mirror-like finish, and the sides of the frame sport a somewhat subdued finish, contrasting nicely with the rest of the gun. Having owned several and examined many others I see no difference in terms of overall fit and finish, metal polishing and bluing, or action smoothness. 2 [with object] chiefly historical Wash (white clothes) with bluing: they blued the shirts and starched the uniforms... She would blue the laundry / For the children. Washing was a long involved process which started with making the soap using lye, lard and ashes, then scrubbing, boiling, rinsing and bluing the clothes in huge outdoor vats of water. A couple of wooden benches at the side of the house in the shade held 3 big galvanized iron tubs for washing, rinsing and bluing the clothes, and a tin dish for the starch. Phrases blue on blue bung (or stack) on a blue do something until (or till) one is blue in the face out of the blue talk a blue streak Derivatives blueness /ˈbluːnəs / noun ... But the real high point is nothing, really - just a moment when he forgets all his tensions about red carpets and movies, and suddenly notices a beautiful old Edwardian boat moored in the unbelievable blueness of the bay. The blueness of the glass and the sunshine works really well with the wave. Above the rows of houses, the blueness brings hope. Origin Middle English: from Old French bleu, ultimately of Germanic origin and related to Old English blǣwen 'blue' and Old Norse blár 'dark blue' (see also blaeberry). The English blue and French bleu are ultimately the same word, which goes back to ancient Germanic and is related to the blae- in blaeberry (Middle English), a Scottish and northern English name for the bilberry (late 16th century). Blue occurs in a number of phrases, in particular those relating either to depression and melancholy or to the blue of the sky, as in out of the blue, ‘as a total surprise’. See also bolt. Something occurring once in a blue moon is something very rare. A blue moon sounds fanciful but it is a phenomenon that does occur occasionally, due to large amounts of dust or smoke in the atmosphere. A particularly Australian use of blue is as a humorous nickname for a red-haired person. This is first recorded in 1932, although bluey is earlier, from 1906. Depression or melancholy have always been around, but no one called these feelings the blues until the mid 18th century, although people have been feeling blue since as early as the 1580s. The blues was a contraction of blue devils, which were originally baleful demons punishing sinners. In the 18th century people fancifully imagined them to be behind depression, and later also to be the apparitions seen by alcoholics in delirium tremens. The first printed record of the name of the melancholic music style is in the ‘Memphis Blues’ of 1912, by the American musician W. C. Handy, who later set up his own music-publishing house and transcribed many traditional blues. Its later development, rhythm and blues, appeared in the 1930s. Obscene or smutty material has been known as blue since the mid 19th century. The link may be the blue gowns that prostitutes used to wear in prison, or the blue pencil traditionally used by censors. Blue-chip shares are considered to be a reliable investment, though less secure than gilt-edged stock (used since the later 19th century for government stock, and earlier to suggest excellent quality). Blue chips are high-value counters used in the game of poker. In America a blue-collar worker (mid 20th century) is someone who works in a manual trade, especially in industry, as opposed to a white-collar worker (early 20th century) in the cleaner environment of an office. A blueprint (late 19th century) gets its name from a process in which prints were composed of white lines on a blue ground or of blue lines on a white ground. See also murder Rhymes accrue, adieu, ado, anew, Anjou, aperçu, askew, ballyhoo, bamboo, bedew, bestrew, billet-doux, blew, boo, boohoo, brew, buckaroo, canoe, chew, clew, clou, clue, cock-a-doodle-doo, cockatoo, construe, coo, Corfu, coup, crew, Crewe, cru, cue, déjà vu, derring-do, dew, didgeridoo, do, drew, due, endue, ensue, eschew, feu, few, flew, flu, flue, foreknew, glue, gnu, goo, grew, halloo, hereto, hew, Hindu, hitherto, how-do-you-do, hue, Hugh, hullabaloo, imbrue, imbue, jackaroo, Jew, kangaroo, Karroo, Kathmandu, kazoo, Kiangsu, knew, Kru, K2, kung fu, Lahu, Lanzhou, Lao-tzu, lasso, lieu, loo, Lou, Manchu, mangetout, mew, misconstrue, miscue, moo, moue, mu, nardoo, new, non-U, nu, ooh, outdo, outflew, outgrew, peekaboo, Peru, pew, plew, Poitou, pooh, pooh-pooh, potoroo, pursue, queue, revue, roo, roux, rue, Selous, set-to, shampoo, shih-tzu, shoe, shoo, shrew, Sioux, skean dhu, skew, skidoo, slew, smew, snafu, sou, spew, sprue, stew, strew, subdue, sue, switcheroo, taboo, tattoo, thereto, thew, threw, thro, through, thru, tickety-boo, Timbuktu, tiramisu, to, to-do, too, toodle-oo, true, true-blue, tu-whit tu-whoo, two, vendue, view, vindaloo, virtu, wahoo, wallaroo, Waterloo, well-to-do, whereto, whew, who, withdrew, woo, Wu, yew, you, zoo blue2 /bluː / verb (blues, bluing or blueing, blued) British informal, dated Squander or recklessly spend (money).It doesn't matter which sum you will transfer (1 $, 10$or 100$) because you don't blue your money, you save human life!... It is again time to break open a bottle of bubbly and to blue our money till kingdom comes. Origin Mid 19th century: perhaps a variant of blow¹.
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