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Posted by John Nichols on January 11, 2020 at 16:53:23 user Mcneacail.

In Reply to: Re: Blued posted by John Nichols on January 11, 2020 at 16:47:38:

OED

T. W. Robertson Caste 111 ‘So Papa Eccles had the money?’ ‘And blued it!’

I read Ransome as meaning she was lucky to get it -- never thought of it as squandering money -- must be from the perspective of the person saying it not hers

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