The word for 06.01.2010 is BLUE

One day late..this blog is for 06.01.2010. Today's word is BLUE. I had no idea that my word today would be so unusual when l started out today. Looked at blue doors, beautiful blue sky, people wearing articles of blue clothing,blue books and blue cars. As we were driving around Fulhan Broadway, in london and we suddenly saw this man coming towards us, with something on his arm! We were travelling in our car at the time, so l had to point and shoot and hope!



blue |bloō|
adjective ( bluer , bluest )
1 of a color intermediate between green and violet, as of the sky or sea on a sunny day : the clear blue sky | blue jeans | deep blue eyes.
• (of a person's skin) having or turning such a color, esp. with cold or breathing difficulties : Annie went blue, and I panicked.
• (of a bird or other animal) having blue markings : a blue jay.
• (of cats, foxes, or rabbits) having fur of a smoky gray color : the blue fox.
• (of a ski run) of the second lowest level of difficulty, as indicated by colored markers positioned along it.
• Physics denoting one of three colors of quark.
2 informal (of a person or mood) melancholy, sad, or depressed : he's feeling blue.
3 informal (of a movie, joke, or story) with sexual or pornographic content : the blue movies are hugely profitable.
• (of language) marked by cursing, swearing, and blasphemy.
4 informal rigidly religious or moralistic; puritanical.
noun
1 blue color or pigment : she was dressed in blue | the dark blue of his eyes | armchairs in pastel blues and greens.
• blue clothes or material : Susan wore blue.
• a blue uniform, or a person wearing a blue uniform, such as a police officer or a baseball umpire.
• (usu. Blue) the Union army in the Civil War, or a member of that army.
2 a blue thing, in particular
• a blue ball, piece, etc., in a game or sport.
• ( the blue) poetic/literary the sky or sea; the unknown : a lark went trilling up, up into the blue.
3 [usu. with adj. ] a small butterfly, the male of which is predominantly blue while the female is typically brown. • Numerous genera in the family Lycaenidae.
4 another term for bluing .
verb ( blues |bluz|, blued |blud|, bluing |ˈbluɪŋ| or blueing |ˈbluɪŋ|)
1 make or become blue : [ trans. ] the light dims, bluing the retina | [as adj. ] ( blued) blued paper | [ intrans. ] the day would haze, the air bluing with afternoon.
• [ trans. ] heat (metal) so as to give it a grayish-blue finish : [as adj. ] ( blued) nickel-plated or blued hooks.
2 [ trans. ] wash (white clothes) with bluing.
PHRASES
do something until (or till) one is blue in the face informal put all one's efforts into doing something to no avail : she could talk to him until she was blue in the face, but he was just not hearing.
once in a blue moon informal very rarely. [ORIGIN: because a “blue moon” is a phenomenon that never occurs.]
out of the blue (or out of a clear blue sky) informal without warning; unexpectedly : she phoned me out of the blue. [ORIGIN: with reference to a “blue” (i.e., clear) sky, from which nothing unusual is expected.]
talk a blue streak informal speak continuously and at great length.
DERIVATIVES
blueness |ˈblunəs| noun
ORIGIN Middle English : from Old French bleu, ultimately of Germanic origin and related to Old English blǣwen [blue] and Old Norse blár ‘dark blue’ .