blued

1. make or become blue.

   the light dims, bluing the retina

   blued paper

   the day would haze, the air bluing with afternoon

2. 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, past tense

squander or recklessly spend (money).

mid 19th century: perhaps a variant of blow¹.