bluey

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"bluey," and had to be wakened at dawn.

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  1. Somewhat blue; bluish. Southey.
  2. An Australian bushman's blanket: so called from the color.
  3. The material of which the blanket called a bluey is made.
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  • Oh, yeah, little bluey-green lights telling him that no matter where the ship carried him, his life would be duty supported. —  The Many-Coloured Land -- Julian May
  • He could imagine Klein waking up, the morning after those pathetic orgies, among the empty bottles, broken glasses, stale smell, and bluey-green light which filtered through the curtainless stained-glass window. —  Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets - 04—Simenon, Georges
  • This Teddy looked a bit gaunt and had given up the henna, apparently, for her bluey-black hair was done in some hairdresser's idiot version of a '20s style, a lot of little wet-looking ringlets like a bunch of mashed grapes. —  Martha Grimes - The Old Silent
  • The waves rolled in pale and bluey, glass-green, wonderfully heavy and liquid. —  Lawrence - Kangaroo
  • It was a smallish room, with big, deep leather chairs of a delicate brown colour, and a thick, bluey oriental carpet. —  Lawrence - Kangaroo
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. from blue + -y.
  2. blue + diminutive -y.
 

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