Re: Corned Beef

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Posted by Robert Hill on January 19, 1999 at 16:59:05:

In Reply to: Re: Corned Beef posted by Patrick Fox on January 17, 1999 at 00:12:02:

The online OED confirms my guess that this use of "blue" as a verb
comes from "blow", one of the meanings of which is the same.

Presumably it arises via confusion between the past tense of "blow",
namely "blew", and "blue".

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