bluey

comparative bluier · superlative bluiest

1. Having a colour similar to blue.

   Synonyms: blueish

plural blueys

1. colloquialcountableuncountableThe metal lead.
2. AustraliacolloquialcountableuncountableA bushman's blanket.

   Then we had to wring our blueys which were rotting in the swags, /And we saw the sugar leaking through the bottoms of the bags […]

   1896, Henry Lawson, In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses

3. AustraliacolloquialcountableuncountableA collection of clothes and other belongings rolled up into a bundle for carrying; a swag.

   ‘Doc’ […] shouldered his bluey and whistled up his lame fox-terrier before formally wishing them all well.

   1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 318

4. AustraliacolloquialcountableuncountableA blue cattle dog, especially a blue heeler.
5. AustraliacolloquialcountableuncountableA blue singlet, especially one from the Bonds clothing label.
6. AustraliacolloquialcountableuncountableA bluebottle.
7. AustraliacolloquialcountableuncountablemedicineA disposable underpad.
8. colloquialcountableuncountableA blue film.
9. AustraliacolloquialcountableuncountableA person with ginger hair.
10. InternetcolloquialcountablederogatoryuncountableAn online troll who uses the blue check verification system on Twitter.
11. UKcolloquialcountableuncountableSynonym of blue pill (“pill of Viagra”).

    He confessed: "You'd have to do a 'bluey' with her. It's one of those situations you think, 'I'm not risking it'. With really good-looking girls, the pressure's on."

    2010 December 19, Daniel Sperling, “Cardle 'too nervous' to sleep with Rihanna”, in Digital Spy

    Synonyms: blue pill

1. AustraliaslangA nickname commonly given to a red-headed person.

   He was a freckled red-haired boy called Bluey.

   1999, Louis Nowra, The Twelfth of Never, page 228

   2 more examples

   Bluey, who of course was a redhead, started out surfing on his mom's ironing board when he was a grommet of six years of age.

   2009, Duke Boyd, Jeff Divine, Steve Pezman, Legends of Surfing: The Greatest Surfriders from Duke Kahanamoku to Kelly Slater, page 24

   A smile spread slowly across Bluey′s red-whiskered face as the boy went to find his hoe, the one Dad had given him to start a garden in the bush.

   2010, Jeff McMullen, A Life of Extremes, unnumbered page