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blueth en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /bljuːθ/ (obsolete)
• /bluːθ/

Etymology

From blue + -th (abstract nominal suffix).

Meanings

1. (rare, uncountable) The state of being blue; blueness.
   • The sky and the distances, as you looked down the Etschthal, had what in Devonshire is called the "blueth" of Italy. 1905 April, Catholic World:
   • I have long been mortified that for these three years you have seen it only in winter: it is now in the height of its greenth, blueth, gloomth, honey-suckle, and seringahood. 1754, Horace Walpole, letter, 8 Jun 1754
   • […] where it should appear lightly touched with blue. The bluth of the cheeks should rather be rich than glaring: […] 1772, The Lady's Magazine Or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, volume 3:
   • One sits — a small "one" among twenty thousand — drowned in liquid blueth (there ought to be such a word as blueth, even if there isn't) and drowned also in heavenly floods of music. 1928, Alice M Williamson, Alice in Movieland:

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