Word.ws English Dictionary

kerflewie

kerflewie is the alternative form of kerflooey.

Meaning of kerflooey

Adjective

kerflooey (not comparable)

  1. (US, slang) kaput
    • Until our economy went kerflooey, it was a whimsical reverie about the life that you could swap for the one that you were leading.2009 February 8, David Segal, “What’s Your New Plan B?”, in New York Times

Questions about kerflewie

What is kerflewie the alternative form of?
Kerflewie is the alternative form of kerflooey.

Words near kerflewie in the dictionary

  1. kerf
  2. kerfed
  3. kerfing
  4. kerfings
  5. kerflap
  6. kerflewie
  7. kerflewy
  8. kerflooey
  9. kerflop
  10. kerfluff
  11. kerfluffle

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: kerflewie (page history and authors); kerflooey (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “kerflewie.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/kerflewie. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.