Meanings
plural blooperies
- countableuncountableThe practice or habit of committing bloopers.
A technique that resurfaces as late as Electric Cafe, where The Telephone Song is made up of 'phone bleeps and telecommunication bloopery.
2001, Andrew Darlington, I was Elvis Presley's Bastard Love-child, page 1292 more examples
For a while there, however, it appeared that C.E. Wilson's kennel dog remarks in pre-election 1954 had set an un-beatable high in executive bloopery.
1960, Solidarity, volumes 3-4, page 10So he and the others hastily created a set out of props and pieces already around the studio - the "bloopery" from the Three Sisters laid flat, Patricia Hilliard's plaster cloak, a chaise longue, a stone Aztec head that was to make numerous appearances in photographs over the years and a birdcage.
2006, Adrian Woodhouse, Angus McBean: Face-maker, page 130
Origin
From blooper + -y or bloop + -ery.
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