bluey

American  

[bloo-ee] / ˈblu i /

noun

Australian.

plural

blueys

1. swag.

2. a legal summons.

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bluey ¹ British  

/ ˈbluːɪ /

noun

1. a blanket

2. a swagman's bundle

3. to carry one's bundle; tramp

4. slang a variant of blue

5. a cattle dog

6. a red-headed person

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Bluey ² British  

/ ˈbluːɪ /

noun

1. a variant of Blue

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Etymology

Origin of bluey

1795–1805; blue + -y ²; bluey ( def. 1 ) so called because usually wrapped in a blue blanket; bluey ( def. 2 ) so called from its blue binder

Example Sentences

I’d memorized Australian phrases and learned that a blue is a fight, to make a blue is to make a mistake, and a bluey could either mean “dog,” “jacket,” “equipment,” “redhead,” or “Portuguese man-of-war.”

From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin

The sun was just below the horizon, and the inside of the truck was bluey pink.

From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell

I ought to be making my own wedding-ring: instead of that I must roll my bluey and be footing it over the mountains before to-morrow morning.

From The Tale of Timber Town by Grace, Alfred A. (Alfred Augustus)

Everything else in life can go bluey and their work will see them through.

From Believe You Me! by Putnam, Nina Wilcox

Beside the bluey trees long purple stripes of shadow now lay, with fallen clusters of branches, on the plain.

From The Path of Life by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander