Drives round a whole lot all alone looking for the car to go blooey and a lovely stranger to happen along and fix it for her that turns out to be a duke or something in disguise.
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?"
1959 — George O. Smith, The Fourth "R", Dell Publishing Co., Inc. (1979), Chapter 10:
Brennan, whatever his thoughts, said in a voice filled with standard concern: "Blowout. Then everything went blooey."
Interjection: "exclamation representing an explosion or abrupt occurrence"
"Well," Griffin began, "it looks like the same thing here again. We've pretty well covered this system and you know how it is. Rammed earth walls here and there, pottery shards, flint, bronze and iron artifacts and that's it. They got to the iron age on every planet and then blooey."
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."
