blooming
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbluː.mɪŋ/; sense 3 also IPA(key): /ˈblʊ.mɪŋ/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -uːmɪŋ, -ʊmɪŋ
Verb
[edit]blooming
- present participle and gerund of bloom
Adjective
[edit]blooming (comparative more blooming, superlative most blooming)
- Opening in blossoms; flowering.
- Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor, vigour; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health.
- (British, Australia, dated) A euphemism for the intensifier bloody.
- 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 54:
- “How'd you like to be shoved in a blooming log?'
Synonyms
[edit]- (opening in blossoms): blossoming, flowering, in bloom, in blossom, in flower
- (thriving in health, beauty and vigor/vigour): blossoming, flourishing, thriving
- (euphemism for "bloody"): bally (British), blasted, blinking, bloomin'
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]opening in blossoms
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thriving in health, beauty and vigor/vigour
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euphemism for "bloody"
Adverb
[edit]blooming (comparative more blooming, superlative most blooming)
- (British, Australia, often followed by well) A euphemism for the intensifier bloody.
- My train's late again. Blooming typical.
- 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 90:
- “Well, all I can say is that if yer don't take yer dial outer the road I'll bloomin' well take an' bounce a gibber off yer crust.”
- 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 3, in Death on the Centre Court:
- It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me. […]”
Noun
[edit]blooming (countable and uncountable, plural bloomings)
- The act by which something blooms.
- 2007 July 23, Jeremy Pearce, “Anne McLaren, 80, Expert on the Embryo, Is Dead”, in New York Times[1]:
- Such bloomings, Dr. McLaren continued, would require a critical audience, “so that they can be subject to scientific and ethical review, freely available for research and one day, perhaps, for treating diseases.”
- (metallurgy) The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.
- (photography) A phenomenon where excessive light causes bright patches in a picture.
Related terms
[edit]- antiblooming
- bloomery – forge
Translations
[edit]blooming
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