What does blooey mean?
Blooey means (dated, slang) Haywire, amiss..
Looking up this word…
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(dated, slang) Haywire, 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?"
"We were heading for a school dance at Cincinnati and she was boiling along like she was in orbit when blooey she just quit."
Use blooey when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Blooey means (dated, slang) Haywire, amiss..
Common synonyms include bam, bang, kablooie.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…] 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?"
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.