blueth

English

Alternative forms

• bluth

Etymology

From blue +‎ -th (abstract nominal suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bluːθ/, (obsolete) /bljuːθ/
• Rhymes: -uːθ

Noun

blueth (uncountable)

1. (rare) The state of being blue; blueness. [from 18th c.]
   • 1754, Horace Walpole, letter, 8 Jun 1754:

     I have long been mortified that for these three years you have seen it only in winter: it is now in the height of its greenth, blueth, gloomth, honey-suckle, and seringahood.

   • 1772, The Lady's Magazine Or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, volume 3:

     […] where it should appear lightly touched with blue. The bluth of the cheeks should rather be rich than glaring: […]

   • 1905 April, Catholic World:

     The sky and the distances, as you looked down the Etschthal, had what in Devonshire is called the "blueth" of Italy.

   • 1928, Alice M Williamson, Alice in Movieland:

     One sits — a small "one" among twenty thousand — drowned in liquid blueth (there ought to be such a word as blueth, even if there isn't) and drowned also in heavenly floods of music.

Translations

state or quality of being blue — see blueness