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blooming en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈbluː.mɪŋ/ (UK)
• /ˈblʊ.mɪŋ/ (UK)
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Etymology

By surface analysis, bloom + -ing.

Meanings

1. Opening in blossoms; flowering.
2. Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor, vigour; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health.
3. (Australia, Ireland, UK) A euphemism for the intensifier bloody.
   • “How'd you like to be shoved in a blooming log?' 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 54:

Forms

Deriveds

bloomingness · everblooming · blooming onion · unblooming · nonblooming · blooming heck · blooming hell · preblooming · bloomingly · late-blooming

Synonyms

blossoming (opening in blossoms) · bloomin' (euphemism for "bloody") · in blossom (opening in blossoms) · flourish (thriving in health, beauty and vigor/vigour) · blinking (euphemism for "bloody") · in bloom (opening in blossoms) · thriving (thriving in health, beauty and vigor/vigour) · in flower (opening in blossoms) · blasted (euphemism for "bloody") · blossom (thriving in health, beauty and vigor/vigour) · flowering (opening in blossoms) · bally (euphemism for "bloody")

Translations (50)

ru расцвета́ющий (opening in blossoms) · nl bloeiend (opening in blossoms) · ru хре́нов (euphemism for "bloody") · cy blaguriad (opening in blossoms) · bg цветущ (thriving in health, beauty and vigor/vigour) · ru преуспева́ющий (thriving in health, beauty and vigor/vigour) · de verdammt (euphemism for "bloody") · de verflixt (euphemism for "bloody") · fr en fleur (opening in blossoms) · es floreciente (opening in blossoms) · bg цъфтящ (opening in blossoms) · fr sacré (euphemism for "bloody") · fi hehkeä (thriving in health, beauty and vigor/vigour) · el κοτσονάτος (thriving in health, beauty and vigor/vigour) · bg разцъфнал (opening in blossoms) · nl bloeiende (opening in blossoms) · ro eflorescent (opening in blossoms) · fr sacrée (euphemism for "bloody") · fi kukkiva (opening in blossoms) · ru прокля́тый (euphemism for "bloody") · pl kwitnący (opening in blossoms) · it fiorente (opening in blossoms) · fi kukoistava (opening in blossoms) · ru цвету́щий (opening in blossoms) · it fiorente (thriving in health, beauty and vigor/vigour) · ro înfloritor (opening in blossoms) · de verflucht (euphemism for "bloody") · pl cholerny (euphemism for "bloody") · ru процвета́ющий (thriving in health, beauty and vigor/vigour) · pt florescência (opening in blossoms) · fr florissante (thriving in health, beauty and vigor/vigour) · fr florissant (thriving in health, beauty and vigor/vigour) · ru грёбаный (euphemism for "bloody") · nl bloeiend (thriving in health, beauty and vigor/vigour) · sv blomstrande (opening in blossoms) · de in Blüte stehend (opening in blossoms) · cy blodeuad (opening in blossoms) · ru чёртов (euphemism for "bloody") · pl kwitnący (thriving in health, beauty and vigor/vigour) · de blühend (opening in blossoms) · ru цвету́щий (thriving in health, beauty and vigor/vigour) · el θαλερός (thriving in health, beauty and vigor/vigour) · cs kvetoucí (opening in blossoms) · el ανθισμένος (opening in blossoms) · grc θαλερός (thriving in health, beauty and vigor/vigour) · la flōrēns (opening in blossoms) · cs rozkvetlý (opening in blossoms) · bg преуспяващ (thriving in health, beauty and vigor/vigour) · nl bloeiende (thriving in health, beauty and vigor/vigour) · it sacro (euphemism for "bloody")

blooming en · ADV

Pronunciation

• /ˈbluː.mɪŋ/ (UK)
• /ˈblʊ.mɪŋ/ (UK)
• (US) audio

Etymology

By surface analysis, bloom + -ing.

Meanings

1. (Australia, UK, followed by well, often) A euphemism for the intensifier bloody.
   • “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.” 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 90:
   • ‘You give me twelve bob a foot, an’ I’ll bloomin’ quick show you whether I can bore or not.’ 1911, ‘Steel Rudd’, The Book of Dan, Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, published 1970, page 1:
   • 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. […]” 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 3, in Death on the Centre Court:
   • My train's late again. Blooming typical.

Forms

blooming en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈbluː.mɪŋ/ (UK)
• /ˈblʊ.mɪŋ/ (UK)
• (US) audio

Etymology

By surface analysis, bloom + -ing.

Meanings

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

Forms

Relateds

bloomery · antiblooming

Translations (10)

ta மலர்ச்சி (blooming) · pl kwitnięcie (blooming) · bg блуминг (blooming) · ru блю́минг (blooming) · fr fleurissement (blooming) · ta அலர்த்தி (blooming) · ru обжи́мный стан (blooming) · pl rozkwit (blooming) · fi kukkiminen (blooming) · es plancheado (blooming)

blooming en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈbluː.mɪŋ/ (UK)
• /ˈblʊ.mɪŋ/ (UK)
• (US) audio

Etymology

By surface analysis, bloom + -ing.

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of bloom
   form of bloom