Informal blue eyes
Origin of baby blues
probably shortened from baby-blue eyes from baby blue, a pale-blue colorbaby blues
Informal a mild form of postpartum depression commonly experienced by women in the early days after childbirth
Origin of baby blues
from blues (sense ), uncertain or unknown; perhaps after baby blue (the color: see baby blues)Webster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(uncountable)
- (uncountable) Period and feeling of depressiveness after giving birth; a less severe form of postnatal depression.
- (idiomatic, in the plural) Blue eyes.
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