blue vs blew
blue
Definitions
adjective
- characterized by profanity or cursing
- causing dejection
- suggestive of sexual impropriety
- belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
- of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky
noun
- used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
- the sky as viewed during daylight
- any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
- any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
- the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
verb
- 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.