blooey

comparative more blooey · superlative most blooey

1. datedslangHaywire, 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

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