Meaning of Bluey | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The metal lead.
   colloquial, countable, uncountable
2. A nickname commonly given to a red-headed person.
   Australia, slang
3. A bushman's blanket.
   Australia, colloquial, countable, uncountable
4. A collection of clothes and other belongings rolled up into a bundle for carrying; a swag.
   Australia, colloquial, countable, uncountable
5. A blue cattle dog, especially a blue heeler.
   Australia, colloquial, countable, uncountable
6. A blue singlet, especially one from the Bonds clothing label.
   Australia, colloquial, countable, uncountable
7. A bluebottle.
   Australia, colloquial, countable, uncountable
8. A disposable underpad.
   Australia, colloquial, countable, uncountable
9. A blue film.
   colloquial, countable, uncountable
10. A person with ginger hair.
    Australia, colloquial, countable, uncountable
11. An online troll who uses the blue check verification system on Twitter.
    Internet, colloquial, countable, derogatory, uncountable
12. Synonym of blue pill (“pill of Viagra”).
    UK, colloquial, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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."”

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