OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 1231

blue

/bluː/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
deprimido • melancólico • triste
Depressed, melancholic, sad.
"Will you play some of the 'Garden' now?" she asked. "I think I should like it. I'm just the least bit blue."
“Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mér…
verde
Risqué; obscene; profane; pornographic.
His material is too blue for prime time.
The air was blue with oaths.
Phrases
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📚 noun • entry_id 1232

blue

/bluː/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
azul • celeste
A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.
It was applied methodically, carefully, resolutely, as in the fashion of a Satin-bird with charcoal, desiccated wood or blue from laundry-bags.
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Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 2753

blow

/bləʊ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
bufar • soplar
To produce an air current.
Hark how it rains and blows!
soplar
To propel by an air current (or, if under water, a water current), usually with the mouth.
Blow the dust off that book and open it up.
To-night the winds begin to rise ⁠And roar from yonder dropping day: ⁠The last red leaf is whirl’d away, The rooks are blown about the skies; […]
soplar
To create or shape by blowing.
to blow bubbles
to blow glass
reventar
To cause the sudden destruction of.
He blew the tires and the engine.
arruinar • cagar
To suddenly fail or give way destructively.
A common problem for double glazed windows (or doors) is mist or condensation between the panes of glass. This is known as a blown window or failed double glazing. But what does it…
He tried to sprint, but his ligaments blew and he was barely able to walk to the finish line.
cagar
To recklessly squander.
I blew $35 thou on a car.
I managed to blow $1000 at blackjack in under an hour.
apestar
To be very undesirable.
This blows!
chupar • mamar
To perform oral sex on (someone); to fellate.
The mandem all used to go round there and get head off her, the sister blowing the man line by line while her brother shotted downstairs in the stairwell.
Who did you have to blow to get those backstage passes?
ir • largar
To leave, especially suddenly or in a hurry.
It's hard on a fella, when he don't know his way around If I don't find me a honey to help me spend my money I'm gonna have to blow this town.
Let’s blow this joint.