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• bluey
  bluey

  noun

  swag.
• Bluey
  Bluey

  noun

  a variant of Blue

bluey

American  

[bloo-ee] / ˈblu i /

noun

Australian.

• blueys
  plural

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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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• blueys
  plural

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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

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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

Among the lashes of her large, bluey eyelids there were still two heavy tears.

From A Love Episode by Émile Zola

The wind soughed through the naked tree-tops; the mist rose and the world thinned away in a bluey haze; this all vanished and slowly it became dark black night.

From The Path of Life by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

I see curious slim oaky-looking trees that are stripped quite naked below the boughs, standing brown-ruddy, curiously distinct among the bluey grey pallor of the others.

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

Someone might say, in a pseudonymous account, they studied at MIT in 1997 in one post, and mention having a dog named Bluey in another, and on their own those details feel harmless.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

The award-winning children's cartoon series Bluey has been translated into Australian Indigenous language for the first time.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

Bluey is now the star of a performance-focused takeover of the park’s Fantasyland Theatre, which officially opened Sunday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2026

If I really want to sound pretentious, I’d call the Super Bowl the final fireplace of the digital era, with a live audience that dwarfs every other show in the U.S., even Bluey.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026

"Anybody who disagrees with Bluey Batcheldor must be pretty nigh the limit."

From Shavings by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

He remembered the rich clove carnations with their dower of a sweet savour, the dark indigo winking "blueys" or cornflowers, the spotted musk monkey-flowers, smelling like a village flower-show.

From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

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