bluey
nounEtymology From blue + -y.
11 senses
- 1The metal lead.
- 2A bushman's blanket.
- 3A collection of clothes and other belongings rolled up…
- 4A blue cattle dog, especially a blue heeler.
- 5A blue singlet, especially one from the Bonds clothing label.
- 6A bluebottle.
- 7A disposable underpad.
- 8A blue film.
- 9A person with ginger hair.
- 10An online troll who uses the blue check verification…
- 11Synonym of blue pill (“pill of Viagra”).
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Colloquial The metal lead.
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Australia, Colloquial A bushman's blanket.
- Then we had to wring our blueys which were rotting in the swags, /And we saw the sugar leaking through the bottoms of the bags […]1896, Henry Lawson, In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses:
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Australia, Colloquial A collection of clothes and other belongings rolled up into a bundle for carrying; a swag.
- ‘Doc’ […] shouldered his bluey and whistled up his lame fox-terrier before formally wishing them all well.1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 318:
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Australia, Colloquial A blue cattle dog, especially a blue heeler.
5
Australia, Colloquial A blue singlet, especially one from the Bonds clothing label.
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Australia, Colloquial A bluebottle.
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Medicine, Sciences Australia, Colloquial A disposable underpad.
8
Colloquial A blue film.
9
Australia, Colloquial A person with ginger hair.
10
Internet, Colloquial, Derogatory An online troll who uses the blue check verification system on Twitter.
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UK, Colloquial Synonym of blue pill (“pill of Viagra”).
- He confessed: "You'd have to do a 'bluey' with her. It's one of those situations you think, 'I'm not risking it'. With really good-looking girls, the pressure's on."2010 December 19, Daniel Sperling, “Cardle 'too nervous' to sleep with Rihanna”, in Digital Spy: