Dictionary

bloomy en · ADJ

Etymology

By surface analysis, bloom + -y. Cognate with Dutch bloemig, German blumig, Swedish blommig.

Meanings

1. Having or resembling a bloom (as on fruit).
   • There young Telemachus, his bloomy face / Glovving cæleſtial-ſvveet vvith godlike grace, / Amid the Circle ſhines: but hope and fear / (Painful viciſſitude!) his boſom tear. 1725, Homer, “Book I”, in [Elijah Fenton], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume I, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC, page 22, lines 148–151:
   • Ms. Schwartz, above, a former management consultant who studied the craft in France, makes several delicately tangy cheeses, including an ash-coated pyramid, a soft herb-flecked one and another with a tender, bloomy rind. 2007 May 2, Florence Fabricant, “Lacking Alps, goats settle in Westchester”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
2. Full of blooms; flowering.
   • a bloomy garden

Forms

Deriveds

bloominess