blew

See also: Blew

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: bl(y)o͞o, IPA^(key): /bl(j)uː/
• (Wales) IPA^(key): /blɪu̯/

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• Rhymes: -uː
• Homophone: blue

Etymology 1

From Middle English blew, from Old English blēow, from Proto-West Germanic *blē.

Verb

blew

1. simple past of blow
2. (now colloquial) past participle of blow

Etymology 2

Noun

blew (countable and uncountable, plural blews)

1. Obsolete form of blue.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 139:

     Her younger Siſter, that Speranza hight, / VVas clad in blew, that her beſeemed well; […]

Adjective

blew (comparative more blew, superlative most blew)

1. Obsolete form of blue.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 318:

     Straunge was her tyre, and all her garment blew, / Cloſe rownd about her tuckt with many a plight: […]