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blew¹

  • /bluː/ UK
  • /blʉw/ British, Southern, Standard
  • /blu/ Canada, US
  • /blʉː/ Australia
  • /blʉ/ Northern Ireland, Scotland
  • /blɪʊ̯/
  • /bljuː/ obsolete

Sounds like blue · Rhymes with -uː

Where it comes from

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

verb

  1. past simple past of blow
  2. colloquial, dialectal, participle, past past participle of blow

blew²

  • /bluː/ UK
  • /blʉw/ British, Southern, Standard
  • /blu/ Canada, US
  • /blʉː/ Australia
  • /blʉ/ Northern Ireland, Scotland
  • /blɪʊ̯/
  • /bljuː/ obsolete

Sounds like blue · Rhymes with -uː

noun blews

  1. countable, obsolete, uncountable Obsolete form of blue Her younger Siſter, that Speranza hight, / VVas clad in blew, that her beſeemed well; […]

adjective more blew · most blew

  1. obsolete Obsolete form of blue Straunge was her tyre, and all her garment blew, / Cloſe rownd about her tuckt with many a plight: […]

Blew³

Where it comes from

Jewish surname, spelling variant of Blue.

proper noun Blews

  1. A surname.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: went, ran, broke, got, fired, tore, dropped, shot, whacked, destroyed, devastated, wrecked, jump, exploded, rammed, wasted

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"blew." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/blew. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

blew. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/blew

Chicago

"blew." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/blew.

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@misc{blew_2026,
  title = {blew},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/blew},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}