blew

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UK/bluː/British, Southern, Standard/blʉw/Canada, US/blu/Australia/blʉː/

proper noun

A surname.

OriginMiddle English blew ← Old English blēow ← Proto-West Germanic *blē →
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Meanings

blew1

verb
  1. pastsimple past of blow
  2. colloquialdialectalparticiplepastpast participle of blow

blew2

nounblew (countable and uncountable, plural blews)

plural blews

  1. countableobsoleteuncountableObsolete form of blue.

    Her younger Siſter, that Speranza hight, / VVas clad in blew, that her beſeemed well; […]

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 139
adjectiveblew (comparative more blew, superlative most blew)

comparative more blew · superlative most blew

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of blue.

    Straunge was her tyre, and all her garment blew, / Cloſe rownd about her tuckt with many a plight: […]

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 318

Blew3

proper nounBlew (plural Blews)

plural Blews

  1. A surname.

Origin

blew · verb

  1. Proto-West Germanic*blē
  2. Old Englishblēow
  3. Middle Englishblew
  4. Englishblew

From Middle English blew, from Old English blēow, from Proto-West Germanic *blē.

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Blew · proper noun

Jewish surname, spelling variant of Blue.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with blew

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Sounds the same

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APA

blew. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blew

MLA

“blew.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blew. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “blew,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blew.

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