blueing
Meaning of blueing
- make or become blue.
the light dims, bluing the retina
blued paper
the day would haze, the air bluing with afternoon
- wash (white clothes) with bluing.
they blued the shirts and starched the uniforms
Middle English: from Old French bleu, ultimately of Germanic origin and related to Old English blǣwen ‘blue’ and Old Norse blár ‘dark blue’ (see also blaeberry).
verb, gerund or present participle
squander or recklessly spend (money).
mid 19th century: perhaps a variant of blow1.
noun- blue powder used to preserve the whiteness of laundry.
- a greyish-blue finish on metal produced by heating.
Information about blueing
- The plural form of blueing is: blueings.
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Hyphenation of blueing
blue-ing
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- blueing is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
blueing synonyms
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