Also bluism. [f. BLUE a. + -ISM.] The characteristics of a ‘blue’ or ‘blue-stocking’; feminine learning or pedantry.
1822. Blackw. Mag., XII. 589. What was heroism with our Chatham, was but blueism and cant in De Staël.
a. 1841. T. Hook, Man of Many Fr. (D.). He had … fallen a victim to her beauty and blueism.
1848. Fraser’s Mag., XXXIX. 542. She had prejudiced him against bluism in women.
