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working blue

working blue is the present participle and gerund of work blue.

Meaning of work blue

Verb

work blue (third-person singular simple present works blue, present participle working blue, simple past and past participle worked blue)

  1. To perform bawdy, profane or pornographic material.
    • The comedian was well known for working blue, so she seemed like an odd choice for the boy's eighth birthday party.

Questions about working blue

What is working blue the present participle and gerund of?
Working blue is the present participle and gerund of work blue.

Words near working blue in the dictionary

  1. working backward
  2. working beam
  3. working beams
  4. working bee
  5. working bees
  6. working blue
  7. working capital
  8. working capital requirement
  9. working class
  10. working classes
  11. working conditions

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Adapted from Wiktionary: working blue (page history and authors); work blue (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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