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bluey, a. and n.|ˈbluːɪ|
[f. blue a. + -y1.]
A. adj. Inclined to blue; more or less blue; also as adv. Also Comb.
1802Southey Thalaba ii. v, The lips were bluey pale. 1830Blackw. Mag. XXVIII. 26 Pale bluey bodies. 1889Pall Mall Gaz. 1 May 3/1 An exquisite effect in bluey grey. 1900Daily News 11 May 5/2 A bluey green colour. 1908Westm. Gaz. 6 Feb. 4/3 There are few furs so eminently satisfactory..as the pretty, soft, bluey-grey squirrel.
B. n.
1. (in Australia): A bushman's bundle, the outside wrapper of which is generally a blue blanket. Esp. (of tramps or hikers) in the phr. to hump bluey, to travel with a swag, to hit the trail.
1890Melbourne Argus 16 Aug. 13/2 ‘We shall have to hump ‘bluey’ again,’ said Tom... Early November saw us again on the track. 1891R. Wallace Rural Econ. Austral. & N.Z. 73 ‘Humping bluey’ is for a workman to walk in search of work. 1896C. J. O'Regan Poems 29 You can fancy, old mate, how I'm longing..To flee with a ‘billy’ and ‘bluey’. 1903H. B. King Bill's Philos. 28 It ain't for bluey-humpers To travel on his road. 1911E. M. Clowes On Wallaby xi. 278 An expression used for what in England we call ‘tramping’, is ‘going on the wallaby’, otherwise ‘humping the swag’, or ‘the bluey’, or ‘sundowning’. 1966G. McInnes (title) Humping my Bluey. 1968K. Weatherly Roo Shooter 43 The shooter walked fifteen or twenty miles carrying his swag, had a few at the pub, then found somewhere to roll his bluey.
2. Lead. (Cf. blue a. 12 c.) See also quot. 1897. slang.
a1852Mayhew Lond. Labour Extra vol. (1862) 26 ‘Bluey-hunters’, or those who purloin lead from the tops of houses. 1859Hotten Dict. Slang 9 Bluey, lead. 1897R. H. Sherard White Slaves of Eng. v. 188 When the lead is cold, it is carried by the blue-bed women to the stack-house... They are called blue-bed women because after the molten lead has cooled in the moulds it assumes a bluish hue. The blueys can sometimes earn two shillings a day.
3. A rough outer garment, or the material of which such a coat is made. Austral.
1891W. Tilley Wild West Tasmania 29 (Morris), Miners, with their swags, surveyors in their ‘blueys’. 1898Morris Austral Eng. 39/2 Bluey. In the wet wildernesses of Western Tasmania a rough shirt or blouse..worn over the coat like an English smock-frock. Sailors and fishermen in England call it a ‘Baltic shirt’. 1934T. Wood Cobbers 86 A seamless coat of ‘Tasmanian bluey’, cut low round the neck and under the arms.
4. A summons. Also transf. (Cf. blue n. 17.) Austral. and N.Z. colloq.
1909T. H. Thompson Ballads about Business 13 I'll show you walls papered with blueys. Ibid. 49 How they served the ‘blueys’. 1941in Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 11. 1942 2 N.Z.E.F. Times 16 Mar. 6/5 That speed cop, who gave me my last bluey on point duty. 1945O. Burton In Prison i. 9 A summons, vulgarly known as a ‘bluey’. 1951J. Frame Lagoon 122 The headmaster sent Mum a bluey saying action will be taken unless [etc.]. 1965G. McInnes Road to Gundagai xiii. 242 A uniformed John Hop..handed me the dreaded ‘bluey’, the summons for riding a bike without lights.
5. A blue Australian cattle-dog. colloq.
1933Bulletin (Sydney) 13 Sept. 21/1 The third [dog] was a common little bluey I bought..as a pup. 1945Baker Austral. Lang. iii. 73 The bluey is a type of cattle dog: originally a cross of the smooth-haired Scotch sheep dog and the dingo. |