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Bluey \Blue"y\, n. [From Blue, a.]

[Australasia]

1. A bushman's blanket; -- named from its color.

We had to wring our blueys. --Lawson.

2. A bushman's bundle; a swag; -- so called because a blanket is sometimes used as the outside covering.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Swag \Swag\, n. [Australia]
   (a) A tramping bushman's luggage, rolled up either in canvas or in a blanket so as to form a long bundle, and carried on the back or over the shoulder; -- called also a bluey, or a drum.
   (b) Any bundle of luggage similarly rolled up; hence, luggage in general.

He tramped for years till the swag he bore seemed part of himself. --Lawson.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Bluey \Blue"y\,a. Bluish. --Southey.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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