Re: Varon

Clint Jackson Baker wrote:

> Blued..."bruised", maybe?  Or perhaps "scandalized"?
> (I'm thinking of a dirty joke as being "blue".)  These
> are just stabs in the dark.  Stabbing into the blue
> blood of an Bolian (Trekker alert!)

No, no.  To "blue" is to exchange non-liquid assets
for ready cash.

        "As far as I can see, there's nothing here to
        keep you from writing a cheque for twenty-five
        thousand [pounds] and blueing the lot."
                --Harriet Vane in Dorothy Sayers's _Gaudy Night_

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