blooey

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English

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Etymology

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Clipping of kablooie

Adjective

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blooey (comparative more blooey, superlative most blooey)

  1. (dated, slang) Haywire, amiss.
    • 1921, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter XXI, in Indiscretions of Archie, George H. Doran Company:
      [] 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?"
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:blooey.

Interjection

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blooey

  1. Exclamation representing an explosion or abrupt occurrence.
    • 1963 February, Rick Raphael, “Code Three”, in Analog Science Fiction and Fact:
      "We were heading for a school dance at Cincinnati and she was boiling along like she was in orbit when blooey she just quit."
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:blooey.

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