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Bluey en · PROPN

Pronunciation

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.

Meanings

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

Relateds

ranga · friend of Bluey · Blueysona · bloodnut

Translations (6)

fr poil de carotte (nickname commonly given to a red-headed person) · fr rouquine (nickname commonly given to a red-headed person) · fr rouquin (nickname commonly given to a red-headed person) · pl marchewka (nickname commonly given to a red-headed person) · pl wiewiórka (nickname commonly given to a red-headed person) · pl rudzielec (nickname commonly given to a red-headed person)