bluely

bluely

English

Etymology

From blue +‎ -ly.

Adverb

bluely (comparative more bluely, superlative most bluely)

1. In a blue manner; bluishly.
   • 2004, Ellen Datlow, The Dark: New Ghost Stories:

     I pursed my lips thoughtfully, then reached out to prod the bluely gleaming chest of the thing with, I suppose, some notion of rolling it off the bed, […]

   • 2005, Brian Lumley, The House of Cthulhu: Tales of the Primal Land:

     By now the bluely luminescent slug-gods were close indeed and their coughing calls loud in the darkness, […]

   • 2011, Herman Melville, Lynn Michelsohn, In the Galapagos Islands with Herman Melville:

     They formed an oval frame, through which the bluely boundless sea rolled […]

Noun

bluely (plural not attested)

1. (Britain dialectal, Sussex, obsolete) Porpoise.
   • 1883, The Antiquary (page 260)

     The Sussex fishermen call the porpoise 'Bluely'.