bluely
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Adverb[edit]
bluely (comparative more bluely, superlative most bluely)
- In a blue manner; bluishly.
- 2004, Ellen Datlow, The Dark: New Ghost Stories:
- I pursed my lips thoughtfully, then reached out to prod the bluely gleaming chest of the thing with, I suppose, some notion of rolling it off the bed, […]
- 2005, Brian Lumley, The House of Cthulhu: Tales of the Primal Land:
- By now the bluely luminescent slug-gods were close indeed and their coughing calls loud in the darkness, […]
- 2011, Herman Melville, Lynn Michelsohn, In the Galapagos Islands with Herman Melville:
- They formed an oval frame, through which the bluely boundless sea rolled […]
Translations[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
bluely (plural not attested)
- (UK dialectal, Sussex, obsolete) Porpoise.
- 1883, The Antiquary, page 260:
- The Sussex fishermen call the porpoise 'Bluely'.