different between blooey vs flooey

English

Etymology

Clipping of kablooie.

Adjective

blooey (comparative more blooey, superlative most blooey)

1. (dated, slang) Haywire, amiss.
   • 1921, P. G. Wodehouse, Indiscretions of Archie, George H. Doran Company (1921), Chapter XXI:

     […] 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

blooey

1. Exclamation representing an explosion or abrupt occurrence.
   • 1963, Rick Raphael, "Code Three", Analog Science Fiction and Fact, February 1963:

     "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.

Synonyms

• bam, bang, kablooie

Anagrams

• O'Boyle

English

Alternative forms

• flooie

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?flu?.i/
• Rhymes: -u?i

Adjective

flooey (comparative more flooey, superlative most flooey)

1. (slang, dated) Drunk.
2. (slang) Crazy, chaotic, awry.

Synonyms

• (drunk): See Thesaurus:drunk
• (crazy): See Thesaurus:insane
• (awry): See Thesaurus:disorderly or Thesaurus:askew