Meanings
plural blooths
- UKalternativecountabledialectaluncountableAlternative form of blowth (“blossom; bloom”).
'Are you afraid?' 'Oh no, sir ... not of outdoor things; especially just now when the apple-blooth is falling, and everything is so green.'
1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC1 more example
All that blooth means heavy autumn work for him and his hands. If no blight happens before the setting the apple yield will be such as we have not had for years.
1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
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