'Bluey' definitions:
Definition of 'Bluey'
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- Bluey \Blue"y\,a. Bluish. --Southey. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bluey'
From: GCIDE
- Bluey \Blue"y\, n. [From Blue, a.] [Australasia]
- 1. A bushman's blanket; -- named from its color. [1913 Webster]
- We had to wring our blueys. --Lawson. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 2. A bushman's bundle; a swag; -- so called because a blanket is sometimes used as the outside covering. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Definition of 'bluey'
From: GCIDE
- Swag \Swag\, n.
- 1. A swaying, irregular motion. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A burglar's or thief's booty; boodle. [Cant or Slang] --Charles Reade. [1913 Webster]
- 3. [Australia] (a) A tramping bushman's luggage, rolled up either in canvas or in a blanket so as to form a long bundle, and carried on the back or over the shoulder; -- called also a bluey, or a drum. (b) Any bundle of luggage similarly rolled up; hence, luggage in general.
- He tramped for years till the swag he bore seemed part of himself. --Lawson. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]