blue vs blew

Definitions

adjective

1. characterized by profanity or cursing
2. causing dejection
3. suggestive of sexual impropriety
4. belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
5. of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky

noun

1. used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
2. the sky as viewed during daylight
3. any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
4. any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
5. the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic

verb

1. turn blue

Examples

Band leader, Ray Blue, is also a composer, arranger and performer on tenor, alto and soprano saxophones.

Commander Laurel D' ken smiled wryly as the blue haired officer said to Allison, ‘We'll need to nursemaid them a bit but I think they'd be able to manage well enough.’

Gwenhidwy likes to drink a lot, grain alcohol mostly, mixed in great strange mad-scientist concoctions with beef tea, grenadine, cough syrup, bitter belch-gathering infusions of blue scullcap, valerian root, motherwort and lady's-slipper, whatever's to hand really.

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