blooming

What it means

1. Opening in blossoms; flowering.

   Synonyms: blossoming, flowering, in bloom, in blossom, in flower

2. Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor, vigour; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health.

   Synonyms: blossom, flourish, thriving

3. AustraliaIrelandUKA euphemism for the intensifier bloody.

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

   1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 54

   Synonyms: bally, blasted, blinking, bloomin'

In a sentence

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

1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 54

Where it comes from

By surface analysis, bloom + -ing.