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blooey

blooey adjective: haywire, amiss.

Adjective

blooey (comparative more blooey, superlative most blooey)

  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

Interjection

  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

Synonyms of blooey

Forms of blooey

comparativemore blooey
superlativemost blooey

Origin of blooey

Clipping of kablooie.

Questions about blooey

What does blooey mean?
Blooey means haywire, amiss.
What part of speech is blooey?
Blooey can be an adjective or an interjection.

Words near blooey in the dictionary

  1. bloodyminded
  2. bloodymindedly
  3. bloodymindedness
  4. bloodynoun
  5. bloodynouns
  6. blooey
  7. blooie
  8. blook
  9. blooks
  10. bloom
  11. Bloom filter

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