#The bluex it manual#
Please read our Rules and Edit Manual before you begin editing.You can go to our Community Portal to get a quick start about us and what you can do to help!.Before editing, take note of the following: Delaware has been the Blue Hen State at least since 1830, supposedly from a nickname of its regiments in the Revolutionary War.Hello, and welcome to the Angry Birds Wiki! A place where you could find or share information about the Angry Birds and Bad Piggies series. Blue streak, of something resembling a bolt of lightning (for quickness, intensity, etc.) is from 1830, Kentucky slang. Blue water "the open ocean" is from 1822. Blue whale is attested from 1851, so called for its color. For blue ribbon see cordon bleu under cordon. The fabulous story of Blue-beard, who kept his murdered wives in a locked room, is in English from 1798. īlue pencil as an editor's characteristic tool to mark corrections in copy is from 1885 also as a verb from 1885. Expressive alike of the utmost contempt, as of all that men hold dearest and love best, its manifold combinations, in ever varying shades of meaning, greet the philologist at every turn. Few words enter more largely into the composition of slang, and colloquialisms bordering on slang, than does the word BLUE. In some phrases, such as blue murder, it appears to be merely intensive.
Of women, "learned, pedantic," by 1788 (see bluestocking). 1400, perhaps from the "livid" sense and implying a bruised heart or feelings. The figurative meaning "sad, sorrowful, afflicted with low spirits" is from c. The color of constancy since Chaucer at least, but apparently for no deeper reason than the rhyme in true blue (c. The sense "lead-colored, blackish-blue, darkened as if by bruising" is perhaps by way of the Old Norse cognate bla "livid, lead-colored." It is the meaning in black and blue, and blue in the face "livid with effort" (1864, earlier black and blue in the face, 1829). The present spelling in English is since 16c., common from c. bla is also 'yellow,' whereas the Scandinavian words may refer esp. term applies varies in the older dialects M.H.G. Many Indo-European languages seem to have had a word to describe the color of the sea, encompassing blue and green and gray such as Irish glass (from PIE root *ghel- (2) "to shine,") Old English hæwen "blue, gray," related to har (see hoar) Serbo-Croatian sinji "gray-blue, sea-green " Lithuanian šyvas, Russian sivyj "gray." The exact color to which the Gmc. The same PIE root yielded Latin flavus "yellow," Old Spanish blavo "yellowish-gray," Greek phalos "white," Welsh blawr "gray," showing the slipperiness of definition in Indo-European color-words. This is from PIE *bhle-was "light-colored, blue, blond, yellow," from root *bhel- (1) "to shine, flash, burn," also "shining white" and forming words for bright colors. 1300, bleu, blwe, etc., "sky-colored," also "livid, lead-colored," from Old French blo, bleu "pale, pallid, wan, light-colored blond discolored blue, blue-gray," from Frankish *blao or some other Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *blæwaz (source also of Old English blaw, Old Saxon and Old High German blao, Danish blaa, Swedish blå, Old Frisian blau, Middle Dutch bla, Dutch blauw, German blau "blue").
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