blooming

English

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbluː.mɪŋ/; sense 3 also IPA(key): /ˈblʊ.mɪŋ/
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  • Rhymes: -uːmɪŋ, -ʊmɪŋ

Verb

blooming

  1. present participle and gerund of bloom

Adjective

blooming (comparative more blooming, superlative most blooming)

  1. Opening in blossoms; flowering.
  2. Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor, vigour; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health.
  3. (British, Australia, dated) A euphemism for the intensifier bloody.

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Adverb

blooming (comparative more blooming, superlative most blooming)

  1. (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

blooming (countable and uncountable, plural bloomings)

  1. The act by which something blooms.
    • 2007 July 23, Jeremy Pearce, “Anne McLaren, 80, Expert on the Embryo, Is Dead”, in New York Times‎:
      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.”
  2. (metallurgy) The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.
  3. (photography) A phenomenon where excessive light causes bright patches in a picture.

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