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.
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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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