Meaning

2 senses

  1. (countable, uncountable)A substance used in laundry to whiten clothes.

    used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge

  2. (countable, uncountable)Any of several processes to protect steel against rust.

Origin

From blue + -ing.

From blue + -ing.

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Forms

plural: bluings
Singularbluing
Pluralbluings

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
blueA1laundry bluedolly bluewashing blue
Close in meaning
  • a process that makes something blue (or bluish):blueing
  • used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge:blueingblue

Word family

1 related words
Relatedblue

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
bluesbluffbluishblunderblunt

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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