A letterman at Oxford or Cambridge. / (historical) A member of the Royal Horse Guards (which merged with the 1st Dragoons in 1969) / Synonym of British Blue (“a breed of cat”)

present participle of blue

An indigo material used as a laundry aid to counteract yellowing

plural of blueing

(music) A form of blues originating in the Mississippi Delta region of the United States, generally featuring minimal instrumentation and song structure.

(music) A minor hexatonic scale originating in the American musical genre blues, consisting of tonic, minor third, fourth, diminished fifth, fifth, and minor seventh, in which notes, particularly the minor third, fourth, diminished fifth, and minor seventh may be bent. It can also be called the minor blues scale when distinguishing it from its only other functional mode the major blues scale.

(idiomatic, informal) To be depressed; to have low morale; to feel sad.

(informal) Blue eyes.

(informal) Period and feeling of depressiveness after giving birth; a less severe form of postnatal depression.

(music) A style of music combining elements of jazz and blues, with syncopated rhythms and a strong backbeat, originating among African Americans in the 1940s. / (Cockney rhyming slang) shoes