blueth
noun/bluːθ/ · /bljuːθ/
Etymology From blue + -th (abstract nominal suffix).
1
Rare The state of being blue; blueness.
- I have long been mortified that for these three years you have seen it only in winter: it is now in the height of its greenth, blueth, gloomth, honey-suckle, and seringahood.1754, Horace Walpole, letter, 8 Jun 1754
- […] where it should appear lightly touched with blue. The bluth of the cheeks should rather be rich than glaring: […]1772, The Lady's Magazine Or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, volume 3:
2 more examples
- The sky and the distances, as you looked down the Etschthal, had what in Devonshire is called the "blueth" of Italy.1905 April, Catholic World:
- One sits — a small "one" among twenty thousand — drowned in liquid blueth (there ought to be such a word as blueth, even if there isn't) and drowned also in heavenly floods of music.1928, Alice M Williamson, Alice in Movieland: