kerflooey
noun[U]
USorCanadian Englishinformal(alsokerfluey)uk/kəˈfluː.i/us/kɚˈfluː.i/asituationwith a lot ofproblemsandexcitement:
For those of you who can't get enough of thewholekerflooey, there's a really goodstoryabout it in this week'smagazine.
go kerflooey
to gowrongorstopworkingcorrectly:
Thestoryis about a time-efficiencyexpertwhoselifegoes kerflooeyowingto acolossalmisunderstanding.
After that things went all kerfluey.
Alltheirtheorieswent kerflooey in thefaceof these newfindings.
It was Lorena'spresencethat made everything go all kerflooey.
2018 was theyearwhen everything went kerflooey.
Faults and mistakes
- aberration
- Achilles heel
- adrift
- black mark
- blemish
- error
- failing
- false move
- faux pas
- flaw
- miscue
- misfunction
- misperception
- misprint
- misspelling
- that's/it'syourfuneral!idiom
- typo
- wardrobe malfunction
- weakness
- what price...?idiom
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Machines - not functioning
kerflooey
exclamation
USorCanadian Englishuk/kəˈfluː.i/us/kɚˈfluː.i/used forsuggestingthat things will gowrongor notworkcorrectly:
Onefalsemoveand kerflooey - someone would gethurt.
Linguistics: interjections
- aiyo
- alack
- alas and alackphrase
- attaboy
- attagirl
- auf Wiedersehen
- aw shucks
- figure
- goodo
- more
- more power toyourelbow!idiom
- need
- need I say more?idiom
- neener, neener
- no siridiom
- period
- small wonderidiom
- sweet
- the rest is historyidiom
- you seeidiom