blue

  • 51Blue — 1. dismal: I m feeling blue ; 2. obscene; pertaining to obscenity: a blue joke ; blue movie ; 3. fight; dispute; row; argue; 4. error; 5. drunk; 6. (obsolete) spend wastefully; squander: blued his cheque ; 7. nickname for a readhead …

    Dictionary of Australian slang

  • 52blue — Australian Slang 1. dismal: I m feeling blue ; 2. obscene; pertaining to obscenity: a blue joke ; blue movie ; 3. fight; dispute; row; argue; 4. error; 5. drunk; 6. (obsolete) spend wastefully; squander: blued his cheque ; 7. nickname for a… …

    English dialects glossary

  • 53blue —  1. Indecent. Obscene.  2. See air was blue.  3. Miserable. Depressed, the blues Feelings of depression.  4. Person chosen to represent Oxford or Cambridge at major sport.  5. See blue in and blazes, the (blue) …

    A concise dictionary of English slang

  • 54Blue — noun a) An anglicization of . b) typically used in conjoined names like Bonnie Blue or Blue Bell …

    Wiktionary

  • 55blue — adj., noun ADJECTIVE ▪ aqua (esp. AmE), azure, baby, cerulean (esp. AmE), cobalt, electric, ice, icy, midnight, navy …

    Collocations dictionary

  • 56blue — [13] Colour terms are notoriously slippery things, and blue is a prime example. Its ultimate ancestor, Indo European *bhlēwos, seems originally to have meant ‘yellow’ (it is the source of Latin flāvus ‘yellow’, from which English gets flavine… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 57blue — англ. [блю] голубой, унылый, подавленный ◊ blue notes [блю но/утс] блюзовые ноты (III, V, VII пониж. ступ. в мажоре) blue scale [блю скэйл] блюзовый лад …

    Словарь иностранных музыкальных терминов

  • 58blue — n 1. Australian a violent row or fight ► They got into a blue Kelly pushed Charlene into a gooseberry bush. (Neighbours, Australian TV soap opera, 1987) 2. British an amphetamine tablet. A term from the 1960s when these tablets were light blue in …

    Contemporary slang

  • 59blue — [13] Colour terms are notoriously slippery things, and blue is a prime example. Its ultimate ancestor, Indo European *bhlēwos, seems originally to have meant ‘yellow’ (it is the source of Latin flāvus ‘yellow’, from which English gets flavine… …

    Word origins

  • 60blue — Cod Cod, n. [Cf. G. gadde, and (in Heligoland) gadden, L. gadus merlangus.] (Zo[ o]l.) An important edible fish ({Gadus morrhua}), taken in immense numbers on the northern coasts of Europe and America. It is especially abundant and large on the… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English