blue
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See also: Blue
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English blewe, from Anglo-Norman blew (“blue”),[1] from Middle French bleu, from Old French blöe, bleve, blef (“blue”), from Frankish *blāu (“blue”) (perhaps through a Late Latin blāvus, blāvius (“blue”) attested from Isidore of Seville), from Proto-Germanic *blēwaz (“blue, dark blue”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlēw- (“yellow, blond, grey”). Cognate with dialectal English blow (“blue”), Scots blue, blew (“blue”), North Frisian bla, blö (“blue”), Saterland Frisian blau (“blue”), Dutch blauw (“blue”), German blau (“blue”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish blå (“blue”), Icelandic blár (“blue”), Latin flāvus (“yellow”), Middle Irish blá (“yellow”). Doublet of blow.
Possibly related also to English blee (“colour”), from Old English blēo (“colour”); but direct derivatives of Proto-Germanic *blēwaz (“blue, dark blue”) in Old English include: Old English blāw and blēo (“blue”), Old English blǣwen (“bluish, light-blue”), blǣhǣwen (“blue-coloured, bluish, violet or purple colour”, literally “blue-hued”). There seems to be a parallel connection in Germanic between words for blue and colour, dually exemplified by Proto-West Germanic *blīu (“colour, blee”) and *blāu (“blue”); and Proto-Germanic *hiwją (“colour, hue”) and *hēwijaz (“blue, purple”).
The sense "obscene, pornographic" is apparently from the colour; various theories exist as to how it arose, including that it is from the colour of the envelopes used to contain missives of the censors and managers to vaudevillian performers on objectionable material from their acts that needed to be excised. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
Adjective
blue (comparative bluer or more blue, superlative bluest or most blue)
- Of a blue hue.
- the deep blue sea
- Why is the sky blue?
- (informal) Depressed, melancholic, sad.
- Synonyms: miserable, unhappy; see also Thesaurus:sad
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
- “Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better. […]”
- 1904, Guy Wetmore Carryl, The Transgression of Andrew Vane, Henry Holt and Company, page 140:
- "Will you play some of the 'Garden' now?" she asked. "I think I should like it. I'm just the least bit blue."
- 1978, Michael Johnson, Bluer Than Blue:
- But I'm bluer than blue / Sadder than sad.
- Having a bluish or purplish shade to the skin due to a lack of oxygen to the normally deep-red red blood cells; cyanotic.
- My hands were blue with cold.
- The divers got them out of the car just in time – they were starting to turn blue.
- (of a flame) Pale, without redness or glare.
- The candle burns blue.
- (politics) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented by the colour blue.
- (US politics) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by the Democratic Party. [late 20th c.]
- I live in a blue constituency. Congress turned blue in the mid-term elections.
- (Australian politics) Supportive of or related to the Liberal Party.
- Illawarra turns blue in Liberal washout
- (UK politics) Supportive of or related to the Conservative Party.
- (US politics) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by the Democratic Party. [late 20th c.]
- (astronomy) Of, dominated by, or shifted toward the higher-frequency, or "bluer", end of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- (particle physics) Having a colour charge of blue.
- (of steak) Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
- Synonym: (humorous) mooing
- (of a dog or cat) Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.
- (archaic) Severe or overly strict in morals; gloomy.
- blue and sour religionists; blue laws
- (archaic, of women) Literary; scholarly; bluestockinged.
- 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 61, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
- Some of the ladies were very blue and well informed, reading Mrs. Somerville and frequenting the Royal Institution; others were severe and Evangelical, and held by Exeter Hall.
- (informal) Risqué; obscene; profane; pornographic.
- His material is too blue for prime time.
- The air was blue with oaths.
- a blue movie
- (slang, dated) Drunk.
- 1847, Jacob Carter, My Drunken Life, in Fifteen Chapters, from 1825 to 1847, page 76:
- My wine I drank and oft got blue / On brandy, gin and whisky too— / Until my reputation gay, / Along with care, was cast away —
Synonyms
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “of a blue hue”): nonblue, unblue
- (antonym(s) of “pertaining to the US Democratic Party”): conservative, red, Republican
- (antonym(s) of “dominated by higher-frequency electromagnetic radiation”): red
- (antonym(s) of “having blue as its colour charge”): antiblue
Descendants
Translations
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depressed
pornographic
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Noun
blue (countable and uncountable, plural blues)
- (countable and uncountable) The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea which is midway between green and cyan in the visible spectrum and one of the primary additive colours.
- blue:
- other blue:
- 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 204:
- Lady Penrhyn was quite handsome enough to have spared one ingredient in her cup of fascination, but, unfortunately, having been married in her teens, she expected to live in them, and, never being reminded by the trials to which her sex is subject, of the flight of years, and the inroads of suffering, expected time to stand still, and the first bloom of existence (the blue on the plum) to remain as stationary as her own taste, for the pleasures of flirtation.
- 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
- She watches the yachts in the creamy evening blues.
- Anything coloured blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in colour.
- I don't like red Smarties. Have you got a blue?
- A blue dye or pigment.
- (uncountable) Blue clothing.
- The boys in blue marched to the pipers.
- (in the plural) A blue uniform. See blues.
- A member of a sports team that wears blue colours; (in the plural) a nickname for the team as a whole. See also blues.
- Come on, you blues!
- (baseball, slang) An umpire, in reference to the typical dark-blue colour of the umpire's uniform. Sometimes perceived by umpires as derogatory when used by players or coaches while disputing a call.
- He was safe! Terrible call, blue!
- Sporting colours awarded by a university or other institution for sporting achievement, such as representing one's university, especially and originally at Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England. See also full blue, half blue.
- He excelled at rowing and received a blue in the sport at Oxford.
- A person who has received such sporting colours.
- He was a blue in rugby at Cambridge.
- (slang) A member of law enforcement.
- 2022, Jim Malloy, Die, Mother Goose, Die:
- He dialed Kathy to be sure she was okay and see if the blues arrived. She was crying when she picked up the phone.
“Kathy, honey, I'm here. It'll be okay. Are the police there?”
- (now historical) A bluestocking.
- The sky, literally or figuratively.
- The balloon floated up into the blue.
- His request for leave came out of the blue.
- The ocean; deep waters.
- The far distance; a remote or distant place.
- 1978, Peter Hathaway Capstick, Death in the Long Grass, →ISBN:
- The problem with buffalo as well as most African antelopes as a steady diet is that they have very little marbling or body fat and, after six months out in the blue, one dreams at night of a T-bone steak sizzling in great globules of yellow fat.
- 2000, Thomas C. Barger, Timothy J. Barger, Out in the Blue: Letters from Arabia, 1937 to 1940 : a Young American Geologist Explores the Deserts of Early Saudi Arabia, →ISBN:
- A dog or cat with a slaty gray coat.
- 2000, Joe Stahlkuppe, American Pit Bull Terrier Handbook, page 131:
- On average, blues and other dilutes have weaker coats and skin problems seem more prevalent in the dilutes.
- (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of five points.
- (entomology) Any of the butterflies of the subfamily Polyommatinae in the family Lycaenidae, most of which have blue on their wings.
- A bluefish.
- 1974 February 2, Roger Frye, “Warm Heart”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 32, page 20:
- When snow falls on the roses, when a mako is beheaded, when the weaks and blues swim south
- 2012, Lenny Rudow, Rudow's Guide to Fishing the Mid Atlantic, page 102:
- Blues are about as vicious a fish as you'll find on the Atlantic seaboard — they will continue to slash through schools of bait even after they have eaten so much that they're constantly regurgitating shredded baitfish.
- (Australia, colloquial) An argument or brawl.
- 2004, Tim Winton, The Turning (short stories), Picador UK Paperback edition 2006. Short story, 'Small Mercies' (at p.91):
- "I had a blue with Dad," said Fay. "He wanted to drive us, I wanted to walk."
- 2008, Cheryl Jorgensen, The Taint, page 135:
- If they had a blue between themselves, they kept it there, it never flowed out onto the streets to innocent people — like a lot of things that have been happenin′ on the streets today.
- 2009, John Gilfoyle, Remember Cannon Hill, page 102:
- On another occasion, there was a blue between Henry Daniels and Merv Wilson down at the pig sale. I don′t know what it was about, it only lasted a minute or so, but they shook hands when it was over and that was the end of it.
- 2011, Julietta Jameson, Me, Myself and Lord Byron, unnumbered page:
- I was a bit disappointed. Was that it? No abuse like Lord Byron had endured? Not that I was wishing that upon myself. It was just that a blue between my parents, albeit a raging, foul, bile-spitting hate fest, was not exactly Charles Dickens.
- 2004, Tim Winton, The Turning (short stories), Picador UK Paperback edition 2006. Short story, 'Small Mercies' (at p.91):
- A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.
- 1948, Alec H. Chisholm, Bird Wonders of Australia, page 13:
- It was applied methodically, carefully, resolutely, as in the fashion of a Satin-bird with charcoal, desiccated wood or blue from laundry-bags.
- Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.
- (British) A type of firecracker.
- 1781, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 172:
- Lord Lyttelton's Life by Dr Johnson […] which a whole tribe of Blues, with Mrs Montagu at their Head, have Vowed to execrate and revenge […]
- (particle physics) One of the three colour charges for quarks.
- (UK politics) A member or supporter of the Conservative Party.
- He is a true blue.
- A blue cheese.
- 2005, J. B. Dann, Anecdotal, page 233:
- "No, just get over here. You need to try this one!" she exclaimed as she cheesed up a chunk of bread with one of our blues.
- 2012, Culture Magazine, Laurel Miller, Thalassa Skinner, Cheese For Dummies (page 55)
- Blues are made via the introduction of molds from the genus Penicillum roqueforti, which are normally added to the milk toward the beginning of the cheesemaking process.
- (slang, uncountable) Risqué or pornographic material.
- 2009 February 25, S. Purcell, Popular Shakespeare: Simulation and Subversion on the Modern Stage, Springer, →ISBN, page 51:
- Improvising freely, he entered the stage with a karaoke set and introduced himself as a 'Bohemian street performer', before launching into a series of clubstyle gags and one-liners, promising 'a bit of blue for the Dads' […]
- 2014 February 5, Charlie Flowers, Kill Order, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 176:
- Fuzz grinned and nodded at the stage. 'Bit of blue for the lads.' […] The stage was dimly lit, and populated by Nubian slaves and harem girls in artfully draped deshabille.
Translations
colour
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anything blue
bluing — see bluing
blue clothing
blue uniform — see blues
sky, literally or figuratively — see sky
butterfly of the subfamily Polyommatinae
bluefish — see bluefish
argument — see argument
liquid added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes
type of firecracker
Further reading
Blue (colour) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
blue (third-person singular simple present blues, present participle blueing or bluing, simple past and past participle blued)
- (ergative) To make or become blue; to turn blue.
- Synonym: bluen
- 1900 July 8, The Truth, Sydney, page 1, column 6:
- It blows, it snows,
And blues your nose,
My toes are all frost bitten
The weather would
Quite starve the crows,
Or freeze the part you sit on.
- 1921, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “The Sea”, in Sea and Sardinia, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Seltzer, →OCLC, page 48:
- The dawn is wanly blueing.
- 2004 November 7, Mitchell Hurwitz and Richard Rosenstock, “The One Where Michael Leaves”, in Arrested Development, season 2, episode 1, spoken by Tobias Fünke (David Cross):
- Michael: As a member of the Blue Man Group? […]
Tobias: Oh, no, no, I’m not in the group yet. No, I’m afraid I just blue myself.
- (transitive, metallurgy) To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.
- (transitive, laundry) To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid).
- (intransitive, Australia, slang) To fight, brawl, or argue.
Translations
to make blue
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to turn blue
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Derived terms
- abyssal blue
- academy blue
- Adonis blue (Polyommatus bellargus)
- African blue tit (Cyanistes teneriffae)
- alcian blue
- ant-blue
- antiblue
- Arctic blue
- Asian blue crab (Portunus trituberculatus)
- azodiphenyl blue
- azovan blue
- baby blue eyes
- Berlin blue
- berry blue
- between the devil and the deep blue sea
- biblical blue
- bice blue
- big blue blanket
- Bisbee blue
- black and blue, black-and-blue
- bleb nevus syndrome
- bleen
- blue acara (Andinoacara pulcher)
- blue admiral
- blue ammonia
- Blue Anchor
- blue-and-gold macaw (Ara ararauna)
- blue-and-white
- blue-and-yellow macaw (Ara ararauna)
- blue angel (Glaucus spp. etc.)
- blue ant (Diamma bicolor)
- blue antelope (†Hippotragus leucophaeus)
- blue argus (Junonia orithya)
- blue asbestos
- blue ash, blue ash tree (Fraxinus quadrangulata)
- blue baby
- blue baby syndrome
- blueback
- blueback salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka)
- blue badge
- blue bag
- blue-ball
- blue baller, blue-baller
- blue-balling
- blue balls
- blue-banded eggfly (Hypolimnas alimena)
- Bluebeard
- bluebeard, blue-bearded
- bluebeat
- blue beech (Carpinus caroliniana)
- bluebell
- blue-bellied black snake (Pseudechis guttatus)
- blue belly, bluebelly (Sceloporus occidentalis)
- blue beret
- blueberry (Vaccinium sect. Cyanococcus) etc.
- blue beryl
- blue bible
- bluebill
- blue Billy
- Blue Bird
- bluebird
- blue-black
- blue blanket
- blue blazes
- blue bloater
- blue blood, blue-blooded, blue-blood
- blueblossom, blue blossom
- bluebonnet, blue bonnet
- bluebook,
- bluebook, blue book
- blue book exam, blue book examination
- bluebottle, blue bottle
- blue bottle experiment
- blue box
- bluebreast
- blue-breasted fairywren (Malurus pulcherrimus)
- bluebreast (Luscinia svecica)
- blue bugle (Ajuga reptans, A. geneveenis)
- blue bull (Boselaphus tragocamelus)
- bluebunch
- blue butter
- blue button (Porpita porpita) etc.
- bluecap
- blue-capped ifrit (Ifrita kowaldi)
- blue carbon
- blue card
- blue cat
- blue catfish (Ictalurus furcatus)
- blue chamber
- blue check, blue check mark, blue checkmark
- blue-cheeked bee-eater
- blue cheese
- blue-chinned
- blue-chip, blue chip
- blue-chipper
- blue circle rate
- bluecoat
- blue cod
- blue code, blue code of silence
- blue cohosh
- blue-collar
- blue-collared
- blue-collar work
- bluecomb
- blue corn
- blue crab
- blue crane
- blue creeping gromwell
- Blue Crown
- bluecurls, blue curls (Trichostema spp.)
- blue dandelion
- blue dart
- blue dasher
- blue daze
- blue detuning
- blue devils
- blue discharge
- blue disease
- blue drawers
- blue duck (Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos)
- blue dwarf
- blue-ear disease, blue ear disease
- blue-eared kingfisher
- blue-ear pig disease
- Blue Earth, Blue Earth County, Blue Earth River
- blue economy
- Blue Ensign
- blue-eye
- blue-eye cod
- blue-eyed
- blue-eyed boy
- blue-eyed cormorant
- blue-eyed grass (Sisyrinchium)
- blue-eyed Mary
- blue-eyed shag
- blue-eyed soul
- bluefaced
- blue-faced honeyeater
- blue falcon
- blue fenugreek
- blue fever
- blue fig
- blue film
- bluefin, bluefin tuna
- blue fire
- bluefish
- blue fit
- blue flag
- blue flash
- blue flax
- blue flier
- blue flu
- blue fly
- blue flyer
- blue fox
- blue frog
- blue-fronted jay
- blue funk
- blue giant
- bluegill
- blue ginger (Dichorisandra thyrsiflora)
- blue gold
- Blue Goose
- Bluegown
- blue grama
- bluegrass, blue grass
- blue-gray
- blue-green
- blue-green alga (Cyanobacteria)
- blue-green bacterium
- blue-grey
- blue ground beetle
- blue gumblue ground dove (Claravis pretiosa)
- bluehair, blue hair
- Blue Hawke
- bluehead
- blue heaven
- blue heeler
- blue helmet
- blue hen-hawk
- blue heron
- Blue Hill
- blue hole
- blue hook star
- blue hour
- Blue House
- blue hydrogenblue-helmet
- blue ice
- blue iceberg
- blueing, bluing
- blueish
- Blue Island
- blueism
- blue jack
- bluejacket
- blue jaundice
- Blue Java
- blue-jawed
- blue jay, bluejay (Cyanocitta cristata (US), Coracias spp.)
- blue jeans, blue jean
- blue jet
- blue job
- blue John
- blue king crab
- blue law
- blue lead
- blueless
- blue lie
- blue light
- blue light bandit
- blue light disco
- blue-light special, blue light special
- blueline, blue line
- blue-lined
- blueliner
- blue link
- blue-linked
- blue list
- blue lives matter
- bluelizardite
- blue lotus
- bluely
- Blue Mantle
- blue marble tree
- blue marsh hawk
- blue mass
- blue meanie
- blue measles
- blue metal
- bluemink (Ageratum houstonianum)
- blue Monday
- blue money
- blue monkey (Cercopithecus mitis)
- blue moon
- Blue Mountains
- blue movie
- blue murder
- blue musselblue mold (Peronospora hyoscyami f.sp. tabacina)
- bluen
- blue-necked ostrich
- blueness
- bluenette
- Blue Nile
- blue noise
- blue norther
- blue-nosed, bluenose
- blue note
- blue notice
- blue oak (Quercus douglasii)
- blue-ocean
- blue ointment
- blue-on-blue
- blue orchid
- blue pages
- blue pansy (Junonia orithya)
- Blue Pearl of Morocco
- blue-pencil
- blue pencil doctrine
- blue peter, Blue Peter
- blue pigeon (Alectroenas spp.)
- blue pigeon flyer
- blue pike
- blue pill, blue-pill
- blue pipe
- blue plaque
- blue plate, blue-plate
- blue plate special, blue-plate special
- blue point, bluepoint
- blueprint, blue-print, blue print
- blue racer
- blue raspberry
- blue-red
- blue riband
- blue ribbon, blue-ribbon
- blue ribbon jury
- Blue Ridge
- Bluerina
- blue-ringed octopus
- blue rinse, bluerinse, blue-rinse
- blue-rinse brigade
- blue-rinsed
- Blue River
- blue riverdamsel
- blue rock thrush
- blue room
- blue rubber
- blue ruin
- blue runner
- Blue Russia
- Blue Russian
- blues
- blue sage
- blue sailor
- blue sandalwood
- blue sausage fruit (Decaisnea fargesii)
- blue savory
- blue scale
- blueschist
- bluescreen
- blue screen, bluescreen
- blue screen of death
- blue seal
- blue shark
- blue sheep
- blueshift
- Blueshirt
- blue shirt
- blue shrimp
- blueside
- blue-sided leaf frog
- blue-skies
- blue skimmer
- blue-sky, blue sky
- blue sky law, blue-sky law
- blue-sky thinking
- blue slip
- bluesman
- blue Smarties
- blue space
- blue spot
- blue spruce
- blue square
- blue stain
- bluestar (Amsonia spp.)
- blue starter
- blue star wife
- blue state
- bluestem
- blue-stocking, bluestocking
- bluestone
- blue straggler
- blue streak, bluestreak (Lestoidea spp.)
- bluestripe
- blue suit
- blue supergiant
- blue swallow
- blue swimmer crab
- bluesy
- bluet
- bluetail
- blue tang
- blue team
- blue teamer
- blue tet
- blueth
- blue threeawn
- blue-throated goldentail
- blue-throated sapphire
- bluethroat (Luscinia svecica)
- bluetick, blue tick
- blue ticket
- blue-tile fever
- blue tit, bluetit
- blue titmouse
- bluetongue, blue-tongue
- blue-tongued skink
- blue-tongue lizard, blue-tongued lizard
- Blue-Tooner
- Bluetooth
- bluetop
- bluette
- blue vanda
- blue vein
- blue vervain
- blue vitriol
- blue vulva
- blue waffle disease, blue waffle
- blue wall
- blue wall of silence
- blueward
- bluewards
- bluewash
- blue water, blue-water, bluewater
- blue-water navy
- blue-wattled crow
- blue wave
- blueway
- blueweed
- blue whale
- blue-white screen
- blue whiting
- blue wildebeest
- bluewing
- blue-winged grasshopper
- blue-winged kookaburra
- blue-winged laughingthrush
- blue-winged macaw
- blue won
- bluewood
- blue wood sedge (Carex glaucodea)
- blue wren
- bluey, Bluey
- blue zone
- bluish
- bluishness
- Blu-ray
- blurple
- bolt out of the blue, bolt from the blue
- Bonney's blue
- boy in blue
- Bristol blue glass
- bromophenol blue
- bromothymol blue
- bronze blue
- butcher blue
- calm blue ocean
- Cambridge blue
- Carolina blue
- celestial blue
- cerulean blue
- chalkhill blue
- Chartres blue
- Chilean blue mussel
- china blue
- Chinese blue
- clear blue water
- cobalt blue
- code blue
- colonial blue
- Colorado blue spruce
- Columbia blue
- common blue (Polyommatus icarus)
- Copenhagen blue
- cornflower blue
- Coventry blue
- cry blue murder
- cycad blue
- Danish blue
- dark blue
- deep blue
- deep blue sea
- Delft blue
- dolly blue
- duck-egg blue
- Duke blue
- Dumont's blue
- dusky-blue
- eggshell blue
- Egyptian blue
- electric-blue, electric blue
- engineer's blue
- Evans blue
- false blue indigo
- fast blue optical transient
- flow blue
- fly the blue pigeon
- forest-blue
- gentian blue
- Glandon blue
- glass blue-eye (Kiunga ballochi)
- granite blue
- gray-blue
- great blue heron
- great blue lobelia
- greenish blue
- grey-blue
- grue
- Guimet's bluegreen-blue
- Haarlem blue
- haint blue
- half-blue
- Han blue
- heath-blue
- Himalayan blue poppy (Meconopsis grandis)
- holly blue
- ice blue
- indigo blue
- into the wide blue yonder
- iron blue
- isosulfan blue
- is the sky blue
- jouvence blue
- Kerry blue terrier
- large blue
- laundry blue
- leukomethylene blue
- light blue
- light the blue touchpaper
- like a blue-arsed fly
- line-blue
- little blue man
- little blue pill
- long-tailed blue (Lampides boeticus)
- Madonna blue
- Majorelle blue
- marking blue
- Maya blue
- mazarine blue
- Meldola's blue
- men in blue ties
- methylene blue
- midnight blue
- Milori blue
- mineral blue
- Mohammedan blue
- molybdenum blue
- monoblue
- moonlight blue
- mountain blue
- naphthol blue
- Nattier blue
- navy blue
- new methylene blue
- Nile blue
- nodding blue lily
- non-photo blue
- non-repro blue
- oak-blue
- ocean blue
- Old Blue
- once in a blue moon
- oriental blue
- out of the blue
- out the blue
- Oxford blue
- pale blue dot
- patrician blue (Lepidochrysops patricia)
- peacock blue
- Peligot's blue
- pencil-blue
- Persian blue
- petrol blue
- phthalo blue
- plushblue
- potash blue
- powder blue
- Prussian blue
- pure blue
- pygmy blue (Brephidium spp.)
- pygmy blue whale
- Queensland Blue
- reblue
- robin's-egg blue, robin egg blue
- Roslyn blue
- royal blue
- Russian Blue
- Russian blue potato
- Saunders blue
- Savoy blue
- saxe blue
- Saxon blue
- Scotch blue
- scream blue murder
- screwed, blued and tattooed
- sea-blue histiocytosis
- short-tailed blue
- Shropshire Blue
- Silverblu
- silver-studded blue
- sky blue pink, sky-blue pink
- sky blue, sky-blue
- slate blue
- small blue (Polyommatinae spp.)
- spirit blue
- starlight blue
- steel blue, steel-blue
- talk a blue streak
- TARDIS blue
- Tasmanian blue gum
- telegraph blue
- thin blue line
- thumb blue
- thymol blue
- Tiffany blue
- triisopropylsilyloxycarbonylleucomethylene blue
- true blue, true-blue
- trypan blue
- Turkey blue
- Turnbull's blue
- turn the air blue
- turquoise blue
- Tyndall blue
- until one is blue in the face
- Venetian blue
- Venice blue
- Vestorian blue
- Victoria blue
- washing blue
- Waterloo blue
- Wedgwood blue
- white-blue-white flag
- white-tailed blue flycatcher
- wine-blue
- woodland blue phlox
- work blue
- Wurster's blue
- Xerces blue
- Yale blue
See also
- (blues) blue; Alice blue, aqua, aquamarine, azure, baby blue, beryl, bice, bice blue, blue green, blue violet, blueberry, cadet blue, Cambridge blue, cerulean, cobalt blue, Copenhagen blue, cornflower, cornflower blue, cyan, dark blue, Dodger blue, duck-egg blue, eggshell blue, electric blue, gentian blue, ice blue, lapis lazuli, light blue, lovat, mazarine, midnight blue, navy, Nile blue, Oxford blue, peacock blue, petrol blue, powder blue, Prussian blue, robin's-egg blue, royal blue, sapphire, saxe blue, slate blue, sky blue, teal, turquoise, ultramarine, Wedgwood blue, zaffre (Category: en:Blues)
- bluing (steel) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Havasupai
- primary colour
- rainbow
- RGB
| Colors/Colours in English (layout · text) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| red | orange | yellow | green | blue (incl. indigo; cyan, teal, turquoise) |
purple / violet | |
| pink (including magenta) |
brown | white | gray/grey | black | ||
Etymology 2
Uncertain; possibly from blew (past tense of blow).
Verb
blue (third-person singular simple present blues, present participle blueing or bluing, simple past and past participle blued)
- (transitive, slang, dated) To spend (money) extravagantly; to blow.
- 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 311:
- They was willing to blue the lot and have nothing left when they got home except debts on the never-never.
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