Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. Chiefly British Slang Used as an intensive: a blooming hot day; a blooming idiot.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A clouded or smoked appearance on the surface of varnish; bloom.
- n. In dyeing, the addition of an agent, usually stannous chlorid, to the dye-bath, toward the end of the operation, for the purpose of rendering the color lighter and brighter. Also called brightening.
- Blossoming; flowering; showing blooms.
- Glowing as with youthful vigor; showing the freshness and beauty of youth.
- Flourishing; showing high or the highest perfection or prosperity.
- Great; full-blown; ‘blessed,’ ‘blamed,’ ‘darned,’ etc.: as, he talked like a blooming idiot.
- n. In metallurgy, same as shingling.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of bloom.
- adj. Opening in blossoms; flowering.
- adj. Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor, vigour; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health.
- adj. UK, euphemistic bloody (in its vulgar senses).
- adv. euphemistic Bloody; bleeding; extremely
- n. The act by which something blooms.
- n. metallurgy The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Metal.) The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.
- adj. Opening in blossoms; flowering.
- adj. Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. informal intensifiers
- n. the organic process of bearing flowers
Etymologies
- Probably a euphemism for bloody. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“It's what I call a blooming shame, that's what!" declared Andy.”
The Airplane Boys among the Clouds or, Young Aviators in a Wreck
“They begin blooming in late spring, continuing in great waves through summer and autumn, only ceasing when the first frost nips them back.”
The New White Knock Out Rose is here!!!! « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
“Anyone know about the timing on these plants as far as blooming is concerned? botanicalann p.s. Last year, one of mine made a baby bulb.”
How to care for your Amaryllis Bulb « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
“Mrs. Waugh readily consented to accompany her favorite, and also to try to induce "Hebe," as she called blooming Marian, to make one of their party.”
“Although people have commented that I look "blooming" - though this could be another word for bloated!!”
“The sweet peas just now started blooming, that is so late, even though they were planted mid February.”
“ She raised her hand to hit then and suddenly stopped, a strange expression blooming on her face as she grabbed her chest, wobbled, and collapsed with a colossal thud, shaking the room, rattling the crystal decanter on the credenza.”
“ She raised her hand to hit then and suddenly stopped, a strange expression blooming on her face as she grabbed her chest, wobbled, and collapsed with a colossal thud, shaking the room, rattling the crystal decanter on the credenza.”
“If you're in the area and want current observations from the Anza-Borrego State Park, call the blooming hotline at (760) 767-5311.”
“And now that they're FINALLY "blooming" - is like, "You know, i'd totally fuck you if I didn't know you since 4th grade - like if you were a stranger, but since we've been to school together, and we know what we looked like way back when - it would just be weird.”
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TECH - digital photography
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britishisms
A tip of my hat to the snarkiest of English dialects. Here here!
Ponce, snog, bloody, barmy, blasted, blooming, bleeding, knackered, poppycock, wanker, tosser, cracked and 52 more...
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cindywrites's Words
chiaroscuro, mollycoddle, feckless, evocative, provocative, invocation, beckon, allay, becalm, console, lull, soothe and 479 more...
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Miscellany
avid, shard, begone, gibes, romantic, inspiration, dashing, affliction, daring, elocution, hegemony, supercalifragilis... and 97 more...
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Tunie: Old Polina
traditional
There’s a noble fleet of whalers, a sailing from Dundee
Manned by British sailors, to take them o'er the sea,
On a western ocean passage, we started on the tr...declare, fair, sweethearts, rum, passage, terror, model, blooming, blooming, plunging, daring, canvas and 14 more...
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minced oaths
expostulations which originated as euphemisms for a stronger, socially unsanctioned, word or expression
strewth, zounds, land sakes, jiminy cricket, gorblimey, drat, begorrah, cripes, doggone it, gadzooks, odds bodkins, sacre bleu and 78 more...
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chiefly british
windlestraw, boffin, poppet, bloody, motorway, telly, git, tyre, windscreen, zebra crossing, panda car, lorry and 61 more...
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