blooming

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of bloom

comparative more blooming · superlative most blooming

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'

comparative more blooming · superlative most blooming

1. AustraliaUKoftenA euphemism for the intensifier bloody.

   My train's late again. Blooming typical.

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   ‘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

   “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

   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

plural bloomings

1. countableuncountableThe 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. countableuncountableengineeringThe process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.
3. countableuncountableartsA phenomenon where excessive light causes bright patches in a picture.