bluey
/ˈbluːi
/adjective [often in combination]
Almost or partly blue: bluey-green foliage...
- ‘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.
- It was a print of hibiscus flowers and ferns mixed together… in beautiful greens and bluey greens etc.
noun (plural blueys) Australian /NZ informal, dated
1A bundle of possessions carried by a bushman.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.
Because the outer covering was generally a blue blanket
2A nickname for a red-headed person.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
- prima donna
- prima donna assoluta
- prima donna-ish
- primaeval
- prima facie
- prima facie case
- primage
- primal
- primal born
- primal father
- primal horde
- primalism
- primality
- primal law
- primally
- primal scene
- primal scream
- primal scream therapy
- primal therapist
- primal therapy
- prima materia
- prima philosophia
- primaquine
- primar
- primarian