Bluey

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  • adj. Having a colour similar to blue
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Bluish.
  • n. A bushman's blanket; -- named from its color.
  • n. A bushman's bundle; a swag; -- so called because a blanket is sometimes used as the outside covering.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Somewhat blue; bluish.
  • n. An Australian bushman's blanket: so called from the color.
  • n. The material of which the blanket called a bluey is made.
  • n. The bundle wrapped up in a bluey, carried by a bush-man when he sets out on a tramp.
  • n. A rough shirt or blouse made of bluey, worn over the coat in the wilderness of western Tasmania.
  • Word Usage
    "With only one room at our disposal it would seem to the uninitiated that the accommodation of the homestead must have been strained to bursting point; but "out-bush" every man carries a "bluey" and a mosquito net in his swag, and as the hosts slept under the verandah, and the guests on the garden paths, or in their camps among the forest trees, spare rooms would only have been superfluous."
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bluish    swag   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Dewey    Fukui    Huey    Hughie    Louis    Sui    buoy    chewy    dewy    ennui