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• bluey
  bluey

  noun

  swag.
• Bluey
  Bluey

  noun

  a variant of Blue

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

All bluey white they’ll be, and each one so scared by the sight of the other that they’ll hardly dare to breathe.

From Pixie O'Shaughnessy by Groome, William H. C.

Look more, Hal—does you see a teeny, teeny white spot on the bluey hill?

From Little Miss Peggy Only a Nursery Story by Molesworth, Mrs.

It is all terrible, taking place beyond the knotted, serpent-crested hills that lie, bluey and velvety, beyond the waste lagoons.

From Sea and Sardinia by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)