hue

• (UK) IPA^(key): /hjuː/, [çu̟ː]
• (US) IPA^(key): /hju/, [çu], /ju/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /hjʉː/, [çʉː]

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• Rhymes: -uː
• Homophone: Hugh

From Middle English hewe, from Old English hīew, hīw (“appearance, form, species, kind; apparition; hue, color; beauty; figure of speech”), from Proto-Germanic *hiwją (“hue, form, shape, appearance; mildew”), from Proto-Indo-European *kew-, *ḱew- (“skin, colour of the skin”) or Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“grey, dark shade”). Cognate with Swedish hy (“complexion, skin”), Norwegian hy (“fluff, mold, skin”), Icelandic hégómi (“vanity”), Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐍅𐌹 (hiwi, “form, show, appearance”). Compare also Sanskrit छवि (chavi, “cuticle, skin, hide; beauty, splendour”); Irish ceo (“fog”), Tocharian B kwele (“black, dark grey”), Lithuanian šývas (“light grey”), Albanian thinjë (“grey”), Sanskrit श्याव (śyāvá, “brown”).

• hew (obsolete)

hue (countable and uncountable, plural hues)

1. A color, or shade of color; tint; dye.
   • 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

     A great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven, but the wind was continually charging and routing these embattled vapours; so that as the cab crawled from street to street, Mr. Utterson beheld a marvelous number of degrees and hues of twilight; for here it would be dark like the back-end of evening; and there would be a glow of a rich, lurid brown, like the light of some strange conflagration; and here, for a moment, the fog would be quite broken up, and a haggard shaft of daylight would glance in between the swirling wreaths.

2. The characteristic related to the light frequency that appears in the color, for instance red, yellow, green, cyan, blue or magenta.

   In digital arts, HSV color uses hue together with saturation and value.

3. (figuratively) A character; aspect.
4. (obsolete) Form; appearance; guise.

• hued

From Old French hu, a hunting cry.

hue (plural hues)

1. (obsolete) A shout or cry.

• hue and cry

• HEU

• güe

From Vulgar Latin *oie, from Latin hodiē.

hue

1. today

From Old Norse húfa.

hue c (singular definite huen, plural indefinite huer)

1. A cap

From Old Norse huga (“think”)

hue (imperative hu, infinitive at hue, present tense huer, past tense huede, perfect tense har huet)

1. in?(transitive) To please

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /y/

Onomatopoeic, compare Dutch ju

hue!

1. yah!, cry to make (a) working animal(s) etc. advance or turn right

• dia!

Inflected form of huer

hue

1. first-person singular present indicative of huer
2. third-person singular present indicative of huer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of huer
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of huer
5. second-person singular imperative of huer

• euh

From Proto-Polynesian [Term?].

hue

1. A gourd

From Proto-Polynesian [Term?].

hue

1. A gourd (plant)

hue

1. Alternative form of heo

• “he, pron. (2)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 June 2018.

hue

1. Alternative form of he

• “he, pron. (3)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 June 2018.

From Old Norse húfa

hue f or m (definite singular hua or huen, indefinite plural huer, definite plural huene)

1. a cap (without a peak, often knitted), woolly hat

• lue

hue n (definite singular huet, indefinite plural huer, definite plural hua or huene)

1. (dialectal, metonymically) a head

• hode

• “hue” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• huve

From Old Norse húfa

• IPA^(key): /²hʉːə/

hue f (definite singular hua, indefinite plural huer, definite plural huene)

1. a cap (without a peak, often knitted), woolly hat

• lue, luve

• “hue” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• huehue, huehuehue and so on, depending on the supposed length of the laugh

hue

1. (Brazil, Internet slang) expressing laugh; hahaha