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English
Etymology
Clipping of kablooie
Adjective
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?"
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Interjection
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."
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