See bluey on Wiktionary
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"ginger"
]
],
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"(Australia) A person with ginger hair."
],
"tags": [
"Australia",
"colloquial",
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English derogatory terms",
"English internet slang"
],
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"An online troll who uses the blue check verification system on Twitter."
],
"links": [
[
"Internet",
"Internet"
],
[
"derogatory",
"derogatory"
],
[
"troll",
"troll"
],
[
"blue check",
"blue check"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Internet slang, derogatory) An online troll who uses the blue check verification system on Twitter."
],
"tags": [
"Internet",
"colloquial",
"countable",
"derogatory",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"British English",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
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"ref": "2010 December 19, Daniel Sperling, “Cardle 'too nervous' to sleep with Rihanna”, in Digital Spy:",
"text": "He confessed: \"You'd have to do a 'bluey' with her. It's one of those situations you think, 'I'm not risking it'. With really good-looking girls, the pressure's on.\"",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Synonym of blue pill (“pill of Viagra”)."
],
"links": [
[
"blue pill",
"blue pill#English"
],
[
"Viagra",
"Viagra"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(chiefly UK) Synonym of blue pill (“pill of Viagra”)."
],
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{
"extra": "pill of Viagra",
"tags": [
"synonym",
"synonym-of"
],
"word": "blue pill"
}
],
"tags": [
"UK",
"colloquial",
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈbluː.i/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"audio": "EN-AU ck1 bluey2.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/50/EN-AU_ck1_bluey2.ogg/EN-AU_ck1_bluey2.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/EN-AU_ck1_bluey2.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
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},
{
"rhymes": "-uːi"
}
],
"word": "bluey"
}
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