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bluey | blues |

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

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.

    blues

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • English plurals
  • The painting was vibrantly colored in reds and greens and blues .
  • (informal) A feeling of sadness or depression.
  • * 1883 ,
  • If we had been allowed to sit idle we should all have fallen into the blues ...
  • (singular or plural, informal) One's particular life experience, particularly including the hardships one has faced.
  • Your blues is just like mine.
    Your blues are just like mine.
  • A musical form, African-American in origin, generally featuring an eight-bar or twelve-bar structure and using the blues scale.
  • Many great blues musicians came from the Mississippi Delta region.
    A large portion of modern popular music is influenced by the blues .
  • (music, always singular) A musical composition following blues forms.
  • My next number is a blues in G.
  • A uniform made principally of a blue fabric.
  • ''The marched in their dress blues .
  • (sports) Any of a number of sports teams which wear blue kit.
  • # (Australian rules football) .
  • # (rugby league) .
  • # (soccer, Birmingham) .
  • # (soccer, Liverpool) .
  • # (soccer, London) .
  • # (soccer, Manchester) .
  • Derived terms

    (terms derived from blues) * baby blues * blue note * blues-rock * blues scale * bluesy * cry the blues * delta blues * eight-bar blues * twelve-bar blues

    See also

    * (musical form) boogie, jazz, rock and roll, shuffle, turnaround

    Verb

    (head)
  • (blue)
  • Anagrams

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