blue jeans

See also: bluejeans, and blue-jeans

English

A man wearing a pair of blue jeans.

Pronunciation

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Noun

blue jeans pl (normally plural, singular blue jean)

1. A pair of trousers made from denim cotton and dyed dark blue.
   • 1964, “The House of the Rising Sun”, performed by The Animals:

     My mother was a tailor / She sewed my new blue jeans / My father was a gamblin' man / Down in New Orleans

Descendants

• → French: bluejean
• → Romanian: blugi
• → Spanish: bluyín

Translations

denim trousers — see also jeans

Catalan: texans (ca) m pl Chinese: Cantonese: 牛仔褲／牛仔裤 (ngau4 jai2 fu3) Mandarin: 牛仔褲／牛仔裤 (zh) (niúzǎikù) Finnish: farkut (fi), farmarit (fi) pl, farmarihousut pl French: bluejean (fr) m German: Blue Jeans f Greek: μπλουτζίν (el) n (bloutzín) Haitian Creole: abako Japanese: ブルージーンズ (burū jīnzu) Korean: 청바지 (ko) (cheongbaji), 블루진 (ko) (beullujin) Malay: jean biru Maltese: ġins blu m Mongolian: хөх жийнс (xöx žiins) Portuguese: jeans azuis m pl Romanian: blugi (ro) m pl Russian: джи́нсы (ru) m pl (džínsy) Spanish: tejanos (es) m pl, vaqueros (es) m pl, jeans m pl, yin (es) m, yines m pl, bluyín (es) m, pantalones de mezclilla m or m pl Swedish: blåjeans c Turkish: kot (tr), kot pantolon (tr)

Further reading

• jeans on Wikipedia.Wikipedia