2. Interjection. (non-gloss definition Exclamation representing an explosion or abrupt occurrence.) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Blooey
1. being out of order [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blooey
Literary usage of Blooey
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1910)
"217; 2 blooey, 40, 455; 3 blooey, 114. general application, that laid down in
the case of Watts and Massie, for running the lines of the land called for, ..."
2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1922)
"... five minutes with prospects—two hours and five minutes of work and the rest
of the day gone blooey ! Not a call in the evening, either. the 'best time ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Henry Peter Brougham Brougham and Vaux, Great Britain Court of Chancery, James William Mylne, Baron John Singleton Copley Lyndhurst (1837)
"... of blooey for that they hare been also in the habit of I public dinners, —
and ail this known to the all this matter of perfect notoriety long before ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1826)
"... and we hope that these will not be sparing in imprinting the brand, and
inflicting the torture. t\--~ THE blooey BUSINESS. From . ..."
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