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bluey
noun 5name 1adj 1
Collocations
4VERB + BLUEY
called, red-haired, shouldered, spread
BLUEY + NOUN
course, s
PREP.
across, up
ADV.
slowly
Definitions
name
1
A nickname commonly given to a red-headed person.
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.
adj
1
Having a colour similar to blue.
noun
1
The metal lead.
2
A bushman's blanket.
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 […]
3
A collection of clothes and other belongings rolled up into a bundle for carrying; a swag.
‘Doc’ […] shouldered his bluey and whistled up his lame fox-terrier before formally wishing them all well.
4
A blue cattle dog, especially a blue heeler.
5
A blue singlet, especially one from the Bonds clothing label.
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He was a freckled red-haired boy called Bluey.
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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.
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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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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 […]
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‘Doc’ […] shouldered his bluey and whistled up his lame fox-terrier before formally wishing them all well.
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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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