Bluey

English

Etymology

From blue +‎ -y.

Proper noun

Bluey

1. (Australia, slang) A nickname commonly given to a red-headed person.
   • 1999, Louis Nowra, The Twelfth of Never, page 228,

     He was a freckled red-haired boy called Bluey.

   • 2009, Duke Boyd, Jeff Divine, Steve Pezman, Legends of Surfing: The Greatest Surfriders from Duke Kahanamoku to Kelly Slater, page 24,

     Bluey, who of course was a redhead, started out surfing on his mom's ironing board when he was a grommet of six years of age.

   • 2010, Jeff McMullen, A Life of Extremes, unnumbered page,

     A smile spread slowly across Bluey′s red-whiskered face as the boy went to find his hoe, the one Dad had given him to start a garden in the bush.

2. (Australia, slang) A blue heeler (dog).
3. (Australia, slang) A blue singlet, especially one from the Bonds clothing label.