different between blooey vs kablooie

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

• ka-blooey, ka-blooie
• kablooey
• kerblooie, kerplooie

Etymology

ka-, an intensifier used with onomatopoeia, plus (probably) an imaginative rendition of an explosion or splash.

Pronunciation

Noun

kablooie (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) A failure, meltdown; or explosion; a splat or splash.

   The bottle of ketchup hit the floor and went kablooie all over everything.

Usage notes

Most frequently used in the phrase to go kablooie or it went kablooie.

Derived terms

• blooey