blooming

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My Alex, I am sure you will be kindly glad to hear, is entirely well; and looks so blooming -- no rose can be fresher.

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  1. adverb Chiefly British Slang Used as an intensive: a blooming hot day; a blooming idiot.

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  • Annie says it never stops blooming, and she's right. —  The Orange County Register - Homepage
  • When hubby and I went hiking Saturday, the only thing blooming were a couple of daffodils. —  Shelbyville Times-Gazette Headlines
  • Luckily, with room rates dropping along with stocks, Manhattan with flowers blooming is a pretty recession-friendly quick trip. —  HotelChatter -
  • Crocuses are blooming, and throughout the North American wilderness, bears will soon be waking from their slumber. —  Fool.com: The Motley Fool
  • "It's a time of rebirth; the flowers are blooming, the days are longer, it's getting warmer, there's more energy in the air and you have a sense of renewal - exactly why people get the bug to do their 'spring cleaning' during spring time." —  Berks county news
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blooming:   bloom ·  blooms ·  bloomed
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Probably a euphemism for bloody.

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  1. Verbal noun of bloom, v.
  2. Ppr. of bloom, v.
  3. from bloom + -ing.
 

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/ˈblumɪŋ/
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