Bluey vs Blues - What's the difference?
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(Australia, slang) A nickname commonly given to a red-headed person.
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English plurals
(informal) A feeling of sadness or depression.
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(singular or plural, informal) One's particular life experience, particularly including the hardships one has faced.
A musical form, African-American in origin, generally featuring an eight-bar or twelve-bar structure and using the blues scale.
(music, always singular) A musical composition following blues forms.
A uniform made principally of a blue fabric.
(sports) Any of a number of sports teams which wear blue kit.
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(blue)
As an adjective bluey
is having a colour similar to blue.As a noun bluey
is (slang) lead.As a proper noun blues is
(informal) any of several sports teams whose uniform is predominantly blue.bluey
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Proper noun
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- 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.
blues
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Noun
(-)- The painting was vibrantly colored in reds and greens and blues .
- If we had been allowed to sit idle we should all have fallen into the blues ...
- Your blues is just like mine.
- Your blues are just like mine.
- Many great blues musicians came from the Mississippi Delta region.
- A large portion of modern popular music is influenced by the blues .
- My next number is a blues in G.
- ''The marched in their dress blues .