| 释义 |
Noun: blues blooz- A type of folksong that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes
- A state of depression
"he had a bad case of the blues"
- blue devils, megrims, vapors [US], vapours [Brit, Cdn]
Noun: blue bloo- Blue colour or pigment; resembling the colour of the clear sky in the daytime
"he had eyes of bright blue"
- blueness - Blue clothing
"she was wearing blue" - Any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
"the Union army was a vast blue" - The sky as viewed during daylight
"he shot an arrow into the blue"
- blue sky, blue air, wild blue yonder - Used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
- bluing, blueing - The sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
- amobarbital sodium, blue angel, blue devil, Amytal - Any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
- [Austral, NZ] An embarrassing mistake
- blunder, blooper [N. Amer], bloomer, bungle, pratfall, foul-up, flub [N. Amer], botch, boner, boo-boo - [Austral, NZ] Someone who has red hair
- redhead, redheader, red-header, carrottop - [Austral, NZ] An angry dispute
- quarrel, wrangle, row[2], words, run-in, dustup
Verb: blue bloo- Turn blue
See also: bluing Type of: African-American music, amobarbital, article of clothing, black music, chromatic color [US], chromatic colour [Brit, Cdn], clothing, color [US], colour [Brit, Cdn], conflict, depression, difference, difference of opinion, discolor [US], discolour [Brit, Cdn], dispute, dye, dyestuff, error, fault, folk ballad, folk song, folksong, habiliment [archaic], individual, lycaenid, lycaenid butterfly, mistake, mortal, organisation [Brit], organization, person, sky, somebody, someone, soul, spectral color [US], spectral colour [Brit, Cdn], vesture, wear, wearable Part of: genus Lycaena, Lycaena Encyclopedia: Blue Blue, Dressed In Black Blue, Ontario Blues |