LekhoriLekhoriOf a blue hue.
the deep blue sea
Depressed, melancholic, sad.
“Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.[…]”
The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea; the colour midway between green and violet in the visible spectrum and one of the primary additive colours.
Lady Penrhyn was quite handsome enough to have spared one ingredient in her cup of fascination, but, unfortunately, having been married in her teens, she expected to live in them, and, never being reminded by the trials to which her sex is subject, of the flight of years, and the inroads of suffering, expected time to stand still, and the first bloom of existence (the blue on the plum) to remain as stationary as her own taste, for the pleasures of flirtation.
To make or become blue; to turn blue.
It blows, it snows, And blues your nose, My toes are all frost bitten The weather would Quite starve the crows, Or freeze the part you sit on.
A surname from German. An anglicization of German Blau.
A female given name from English, typically used in conjoined names like Bonnie Blue or Blue Bell.
A male nickname, occasionally used as a formal given name. (Australia) Nickname for a person with ginger hair.
From Middle English blewe, from Anglo-Norman blew (“blue”), from Middle French bleu, from Old French blöe, bleve, blef (“blue”), from Frankish *blāu (“blue”) (perhaps through a Late Latin blāvus, blāv...
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Having a bluish or purplish shade to the skin due to a lack of oxygen to the normally deep-red red blood cells; cyanotic.
My hands were blue with cold.
Anything coloured blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in colour.
I don't like red Smarties. Have you got a blue?
A letterman at Oxford or Cambridge.
To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.
To spend (money) extravagantly; to blow.
They was willing to blue the lot and have nothing left when they got home except debts on the never-never.