blooey

adj, intj — 2 senses

blooey

adj

Etymology Clipping of kablooie.

1

Dated, Slang Haywire, amiss.

[…] 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?"1921, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter XXI, in Indiscretions of Archie, George H. Doran Company:

blooey

intj

Etymology Clipping of kablooie.

1

Exclamation representing an explosion or abrupt occurrence.

"We were heading for a school dance at Cincinnati and she was boiling along like she was in orbit when blooey she just quit."1963 February, Rick Raphael, “Code Three”, in Analog Science Fiction and Fact:

Synonyms: bam, bang, kablooie

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