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bluey1


a summons issued for a traffic or parking offence.

Contributor's comments: Commonly used in Sth Aust as well.

Contributor's comments: This term for a police 'summons' is still in use in Tasmania....the actual colour of the paper is/was blue.

Contributor's comments: Several other uses of "bluey"; refers to a blue bottle in NSW beaches. Also bluey as in "mate" (my mate bluey); blue cattle dog often referred to as a bluey.

bluey2


a durable warm woollen type jacket: It's a cold one today, glad I'm wearing a bluey.

Contributor's comments: A bluey is a heavy woollen coat, ranging from a jacket to a full length coat; a bluey is warm and waterproof: "You'll need your bluey today, you can smell the penguin shit on that wind!"

Contributor's comments: overcoat of varying lengths, probably wool/warm and rainproof. Quote from Trampled Wilderness by R.& K. Gowlland. The Bushmen's Bluey, a huge woolen overcoat of finw woolen cloth, warm and waterproof. It was designed by Robert Marriott an early pioneer of the Derwent Valley Tasmania and marketed: "Put your bluey on if you're going out in this weather."