baby n. Baby with a blue complexion due to a congenital heart defect.

- blood n. Noble birth.

- book n. Report issued by parliament or the privy council.

- cheese n. Cheese with veins of blue mould.

- funk n. Colloq. Terror or panic.

- peter n. Blue flag with a white square flown by a ship about to leave port.

- rinse n. Bluish dye for grey hair.

- tit n. Common tit with a blue crest.

- whale n. Rorqual, the largest known living mammal.

- —adj. (bluer, bluest) 1 having the colour of a clear sky.

- sad, depressed.

- pornographic (a blue film).

- politically conservative. —n. - blue colour or pigment.

- blue clothes or material (dressed in blue).

- person who represents a university in a sport, esp. Oxford or cambridge.

- conservative party supporter. —v. (blues, blued, bluing or blueing) 1 make blue.

- slang squander. once in a blue moon very rarely. Out of the blue unexpectedly. [french from germanic]