Definition of "blooming"

blooming

/ˈbluː.mɪŋ/

verb
1. present participle and gerund of bloom
adjective
comparative more blooming, superlative most blooming
1. Opening in blossoms; flowering.
2. Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor, vigour; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health.
3. (Britain, Australia, dated) A euphemism for the intensifier bloody.
  Quotations
  “How'd you like to be shoved in a blooming log?'
  1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 54
adverb
comparative more blooming, superlative most blooming
1. (Britain, Australia, often followed by well) A euphemism for the intensifier bloody.
  Quotations
  “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
noun
countable and uncountable, plural bloomings
1. The act by which something blooms.
  Quotations
  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. (metallurgy) The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.
3. (photography) A phenomenon where excessive light causes bright patches in a picture.

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