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
- incombustibility
- incombustible
- income
- income bracket
- income group
- incomer
- -incomer
- incomes policy
- income support
- income tax
- incoming
- incommensurability
- incommensurable
- incommensurably
- incommensurate
- incommensurately
- incommensurateness
- in commission
- incommode
- incommodious
- incommodiously
- incommodiousness
- in common
- in common with
- incommunicability