Bluely vs Bluey - What's the difference?
bluely | bluey |
In a blue manner; bluishly.
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Porpoise.
(Australia, slang) A nickname commonly given to a red-headed person.
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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)- 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, [...]
- By now the bluely luminescent slug-gods were close indeed and their coughing calls loud in the darkness, [...]
- They formed an oval frame, through which the bluely boundless sea rolled [...]
Noun
(bluelies)bluey
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)page 228,
- He was a freckled red-haired boy called Bluey .
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- 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.
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- 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.