bluely

adv, noun — 2 senses

bluely

adv

Etymology From blue + -ly.

1

In a blue manner; bluishly.

  • I pursed my lips thoughtfully, then reached out to prod the bluely gleaming chest of the thing with, I suppose, some notion of rolling it off the bed, […]2004, Ellen Datlow, The Dark: New Ghost Stories:
  • By now the bluely luminescent slug-gods were close indeed and their coughing calls loud in the darkness, […]2005, Brian Lumley, The House of Cthulhu: Tales of the Primal Land:
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  • They formed an oval frame, through which the bluely boundless sea rolled […]2011, Herman Melville, Lynn Michelsohn, In the Galapagos Islands with Herman Melville:

bluely

noun
1

UK, Dialectal, No plural, Obsolete Porpoise.

  • The Sussex fishermen call the porpoise 'Bluely'.1883, The Antiquary, page 260:

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