bluing
Meaning of bluing
- blue powder used to preserve the whiteness of laundry.
- a greyish-blue finish on metal produced by heating.
- 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.
Information about bluing
- The plural form of bluing is: bluings.
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Hyphenation of bluing
blu-ing
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- bluing is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
bluing synonyms
Meaning blueing:
Anagrams of bluing
Words that rhyme with bluing
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