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kerflewy

kerflewy 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 kerflewy

What is kerflewy the alternative form of?
Kerflewy is the alternative form of kerflooey.

Words near kerflewy in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kerflewy (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.

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