blooey

English

Etymology

Shortening of kablooie.

Adjective

blooey (comparative more blooey, superlative most blooey)

1. (dated, slang) Haywire, amiss.
   • 1921, P. G. Wodehouse, Indiscretions of Archie, George H. Doran Company (1921), Chapter XXI:

     […] Mother says vegetables contain all the proteins you want. Mother says, if you eat meat, your blood-pressure goes all blooey. Do you think it does?"

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Interjection

blooey

1. Exclamation representing an explosion or abrupt occurrence.
   • 1963, Rick Raphael, "Code Three", Analog Science Fiction and Fact, February 1963:

     "We were heading for a school dance at Cincinnati and she was boiling along like she was in orbit when blooey she just quit."

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Synonyms

• bam, bang, kablooie