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Blooming

adj, adv, noun, verb

Definitions

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

    "“How'd you like to be shoved in a blooming log?'"

Adjective
  1. 1
    informal intensifiers wordnet
Adverb
  1. 1
    A euphemism for the intensifier bloody. Australia, British, often

    "My train's late again. Blooming typical."

Noun
  1. 1
    The act by which something blooms. countable, uncountable

    "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. 2
    the organic process of bearing flowers wordnet
  3. 3
    The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    A phenomenon where excessive light causes bright patches in a picture. countable, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of bloom form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

By surface analysis, bloom + -ing.

Etymology 2

By surface analysis, bloom + -ing.

Etymology 3

By surface analysis, bloom + -ing.

Etymology 4

By surface analysis, bloom + -ing.

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