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Bluely vs Bluey - What's the difference?

bluely | bluey |

As nouns the difference between bluely and bluey

is that bluely is porpoise while bluey is (slang) lead.

As an adverb bluely

is in a blue manner; bluishly.

As an adjective bluey is

having a colour similar to blue.

bluely

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • In a blue manner; bluishly.
  • *2004 , Ellen Datlow, The Dark: New Ghost Stories :
  • I pursed my lips thoughtfully, then reached out to prod the bluely gleaming chest of the thing with, I suppose, some notion of rolling it off the bed, [...]
  • *2005 , Brian Lumley, The House of Cthulhu: Tales of the Primal Land :
  • By now the bluely luminescent slug-gods were close indeed and their coughing calls loud in the darkness, [...]
  • *2011 , Herman Melville, Lynn Michelsohn, In the Galapagos Islands with Herman Melville :
  • They formed an oval frame, through which the bluely boundless sea rolled [...]

    Noun

    (bluelies)
  • Porpoise.
  • bluey

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (Australia, slang) A nickname commonly given to a red-headed person.
  • * 1999 , , The Twelfth of Never , page 228,
  • He was a freckled red-haired boy called Bluey .
  • * 2009 , Duke Boyd, Jeff Divine, Steve Pezman, Legends of Surfing: The Greatest Surfriders from Duke Kahanamoku to Kelly Slater , page 24,
  • 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.
  • * 2010 , Jeff McMullen, A Life of Extremes , unnumbered page,
  • 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.