bloomy

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adjective

Having or resembling a bloom (as on fruit).

“a bloomy garden”

Scrabble 13

Meanings

adjectivebloomy (comparative more bloomy, superlative most bloomy)

comparative more bloomy · superlative most bloomy

  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
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    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

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Origin

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

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