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blossomest en · ADJ

Etymology

From blossom + -est.

Meanings

  1. Most like a blossom.
    • ... instead of saying "Oh that's nice blossom" ... looking at it through the window when I'm writing, I see it is the whitest, frothiest, blossomest blossom that there ever could be, and I can see it. 1994, Dennis Potter, 15 March 1994, an interview with Melvyn Bragg. Broadcast by Channel 4 on 5 April 1994
    • In my opinion, one of the nicest sights wil^([sic]) be in the Cotswolds, just north of Oxford, where the blossom is the blossomest, the rolling countryside is the prettiest and the cottages are the most picturesque. 2000 February 14, Barbara Martin, “Re: Nat's holiday”, in alt.support.arthritis (Usenet):
    • The cherry trees are at their frothy blossomest and the vivid green of new growth lights even the darkest corners. 1998 April 14, [nimbus], “Re: about fear”, in alt.dreams.castaneda (Usenet):
    • The winter that strikes the blossomest season is the one most dreaded for wanton destruction 1950, Judson Crews, A Poet's Breath, Motive Book Shop (1950), unknown page
    • I fancy that, in the vital kernel of that inanimate ball of fur, which Audubon says he rolls himself into, he is all the while dreaming the sweetest of dreams — living in the rankest, blossomest, honeyest clover, fenced about with delightful tumbled-down stone-walls, […] 1871 February 25, Myron B. Benton, “A Midwinter-Day”, in Appletons' Journal of Literature, Science and Art, page 227:

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blossomiest

blossomest en · VERB

Etymology

From blossom + -est.

Meanings

  1. (archaic, form-of, indicative, present, second-person, singular) second-person singular simple present indicative of blossom
    form of blossom
    • That blossomest above the calm Pacific's beach 1907, Louis M. Elshemus, "Mollie", in All About Girls: Unpoetical and Poetical Maidens, Eastman Lewis (1907), page 163
    • You live and you die — cold winter is your tomb; but, when spring comes, with its genial showers, and dissolves thy bonds, thou arisest and blossomest more sweetly than before. 1861, J. T. Burgess, Life Scenes and Social Sketches: A Book for English Hearths and Homes, W. Kent & Co., page 33:
    • Like some young flower, thou blossomest, Without a fear on earth; 1840, Francis Hastings Doyle, "To —", in Miscellaneous Verses, Blatch and Lampert (1840), page 50