bluey
/ˈbluː.i/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.21 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A collection of clothes and other belongings rolled up into a bundle for carrying; a swag.
Australian usage; Colloquial; Countable; Uncountable
noun
A blue cattle dog, especially a blue heeler.
Australian usage; Colloquial; Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "He was a freckled red-haired boy called Bluey."
- "Bluey, who of course was a redhead, started out surfing on his mom's ironing board when he was a grommet of six years of age."
- "A smile spread slowly across Bluey′s red-whiskered face as the boy went to find his hoe, the one Dad had given him to start a garden in the bush."
- "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 […]"
- "‘Doc’ […] shouldered his bluey and whistled up his lame fox-terrier before formally wishing them all well."
- "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.""
Etymology
Etymology tree English blue Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij- Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English Bluey From blue + -y.
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈbluː.i/