Bluey

See also: bluey

English

Etymology

From blue +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

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Proper noun

Bluey

1. (Australia, slang) A nickname commonly given to a red-headed person.
   • 1999, Louis Nowra, The Twelfth of Never‎^[1], page 228:

     He was a freckled red-haired boy called Bluey.

   • 2009, Duke Boyd, Jeff Divine, Steve Pezman, Legends of Surfing: The Greatest Surfriders from Duke Kahanamoku to Kelly Slater, page 24:

     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.

   • 2010, Jeff McMullen, A Life of Extremes, unnumbered page:

     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.

Related terms

• friend of Bluey

Translations

nickname commonly given to a red-headed person

• French: poil de carotte (fr), rouquin (fr) m, rouquine (fr) f
• Polish: marchewka (pl), wiewiórka (pl), rudzielec (pl)

See also

• bloodnut
• ranga