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I'm guessing it may be cuz of the pale blueish-grey tone to their skin due to lack of pigment??
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Hmmm...I've never heard this one! I've been a redhead for all of my 39 years and thought I had heard every nickname, pleasant or not, that there was -- but I'm baffled! Where is this term used?
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This is an Australian term, for those who are curious. I did a little work around the web and found this info: As writer, poet and member of the modernist literary and artistic movement the Angry Penguins, Max Harris points out in his book The Australian Way with Words , 'one of the Australian ratbag traditions is to take a word and perversely use it as the opposite of its intended meaning.' A well-known illustration of this is the word 'bluey', a nickname for someone with red hair. http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/slang/ I wonder if it could be related, though, to the fact that, when we Aussies fight, we have a "blue" ie we get all worked up and RED. (coming from "black and blue")
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I thought it was a play on words 'true-blue' or to do with the idea that people with Red hair are easily angered and also easily depressed so that was the reason for the 'blue' - ie feeing blue'. But perhaps I'm wrong... Sorry to anyone out there with red hair.
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Australian English (slang)- Nickname given to a red headed person. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bluey It is also a surname: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bluey
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