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Bluey vs Gluey - What's the difference?

bluey | gluey |

As adjectives the difference between bluey and gluey

is that bluey is having a colour similar to blue while gluey is viscous and adhesive, as glue.

As a noun bluey

is (slang) lead.

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.

    gluey

    English

    Adjective

    (gluier)
  • Viscous and adhesive, as glue.
  • * 1984 , Herman Carmel, Black days, white nights
    • The daily diet consisted of a slice of black, gluey bread with tea and one watery soup with a few frozen cabbage leaves in it.

    Synonyms

    * sticky * gummy * tacky