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Blooey vs Flooey - What's the difference?

blooey | flooey |

As adjectives the difference between blooey and flooey

is that blooey is haywire, amiss while flooey is drunk.

As an interjection blooey

is Exclamation representing an explosion or abrupt occurrence.

blooey

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (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?"
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  • Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • * 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."
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  • Synonyms

    * bam, bang, kablooie

    flooey

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (slang, dated) Drunk.
  • (slang) Crazy, chaotic, awry.
  • * 1935 , John Milton Oskison, Brothers three
  • Everything I've tried since pa died has gone flooey .
  • * 2000 , James Clifton Cobb, The second gun
  • Well, sir, about a second after Jake nodded his head, the place went flooey . Everybody started whoopin' and placin' bets and yelling out drink orders...