Lexicographical Neighbors of Blueys
Literary usage of Blueys
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. "Over There" with the Australians by R. Hugh Knyvett (1918)
"... appropriating their six-foot length by dumping their "blueys" upon it, but
that same night they would be convinced of their mistake as the old hands, ..."
2. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"... miners with their swags, surveyors in their ' blueys "... all aid effectively
in the panorama." Board,n. term used by shearers. See quotation. 1893. ..."
3. From the Front; Trench Poetry edited by Clarence Edward Andrews (1918)
"They blew us from our depot south A bit along the beach, We humped our blueys,
nothing loath, And settled out of reach. Our store grew large and prosperous, ..."
4. The Wild West of Tasmania: Being a Description of the Silver Fields of by Wilberton Tilley (1891)
"... journeying to or from Dundas and Trial, miners with their swags, surveyors in
their " blueys," groups of men here and there or on the hotel verandahs, ..."
5. Jörn Uhl by Gustav Frenssen (1905)
"You know, the two gray-blueys? " Then in her fear she runs over to Jorn's side: "
Jorn! Fiete wants to swap with me again." The whole afternoon, while the ..."
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