Bluey vs Ranga - What's the difference?
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(Australia, slang) A nickname commonly given to a red-headed person.
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(Australia, slang, pejorative) An orange-haired or red-haired person.
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Ranga is a synonym of bluey.
As nouns the difference between bluey and ranga
is that bluey is lead while ranga is an orange-haired or red-haired person.As a proper noun Bluey
is a nickname commonly given to a red-headed person.As an adjective bluey
is having a colour similar to blue.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.
ranga
English
Noun
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- You?re looking down upon ‘rangas ’ crossing at the traffic lights below. What a cheap but satisfying form of Dublin entertainment! With the sun out, the redheads of Dublin glow like copper wire.
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- Indeed, Julia Eileen Gillard may not even be the country?s first ranga prime minister; since all the old ones appear only in black and white, we can?t tell.
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- Fez?s resolutions:
- 3. I will not call Blue ‘Ranga Girl’.