Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. to make a complaint.

1922		Smith’s Wkly (Sydney) 2 Dec. 18/3: The first bloke who ‘blued’ rushed up to the local copper. ‘Mac., I’ve been robbed,’ he roared.
2006		B. Matthews Intractable [ebook] ‘I have to run the stencils past [prison governor] Duff before every issue is published but I can’t see him bluing’.

2. to argue, to fight; thus blueing, brawling, fighting.

1962		C. Rohan Delinquents 85: You can go. I’ll give you that; but you have to spot too much weight. You’re too titchy to blue on.
1965		W. Dick Bunch of Ratbags 199: We went down the lane and removed our jackets and commenced to blue-onward.
1976		D. Ireland Glass Canoe (1982) 25: While they were bluing, I thought of all that energy exploded during the few minutes the fight lasted.
1985		R.G. Barrett You Wouldn’t Be Dead for Quids (1989) 79: I had a prick of a time myself [...] Never stopped bluein’ with me missus the whole bloody time.
1993		Smith & Noble Neddy (1998) 163: I was relieved that he wasn’t blueing.
2004		T. Winton ‘Family’ in Turning (2005) 181: You come here to blue with me? said Max with his pit-bull leer.
2007		D. McDonald Luck in the Greater West (2008) 109: It became a meeting place, and [...] a blueing place.
2013		D. Whish-Wilson Zero at the Bone [ebook] It wouldn’t matter, though, if he wasn’t [paid]. Twenty of the state’s finest blueing on a Coobie lawn was reward enough.

3. to reprimand, to swear at.

1993

Smith & Noble Neddy (1998) 152: Daly was blueing on me.

4. to boast.

1993

Smith & Noble Neddy (1998) 235: All you had to do was watch the police and the van drive away and then go ahead and rob the payroll. I’m not blueing about it. It made my job easier, so why would I complain?