blooey
English edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
blooey (comparative more blooey, superlative most blooey)
- (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 edit
blooey
- 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.