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say it: BLOO-ing
blueing is a noun meaning "used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge". It is pronounced /ˈbluɪŋ/ — BLOO-ing. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a process that makes something blue (or bluish)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for blueing come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.