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Blew

//bl(j)uː// adj, name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Obsolete form of blue. alt-of, obsolete

    "Straunge was her tyre, and all her garment blew, / Cloſe rownd about her tuckt with many a plight: […]"

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    Obsolete form of blue. alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "Her younger Siſter, that Speranza hight, / VVas clad in blew, that her beſeemed well; […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past of blow form-of, past
  2. 2
    past participle of blow colloquial, form-of, participle, past

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English blew, from Old English blēow, from Proto-West Germanic *blē.

Etymology 2

Jewish surname, spelling variant of Blue.

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