Bluey

Bluey

See also: bluey

English

Etymology

    From blue + -y.

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    Bluey

    1. (Australia, slang) A nickname commonly given to a red-headed person.
      • 1999, Louis Nowra, The Twelfth of Never[1], page 228:
        He was a freckled red-haired boy called Bluey.
      • 2009, Duke Boyd, Jeff Divine, Steve Pezman, Legends of Surfing: The Greatest Surfriders from Duke Kahanamoku to Kelly Slater, page 24:
        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.
      • 2010, Jeff McMullen, A Life of Extremes, unnumbered page:
        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.

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