blooming
verbeadjectifadverbenomattesté dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//ˈbluː.mɪŋ//
- Royaume-Uni//ˈblʊ.mɪŋ//
Opening in blossoms; flowering.
verbe
- 1
Aussi une forme de bloompresent participle and gerund of bloom
Étymologie
By surface analysis, bloom + -ing.
adjectif
- 1
Opening in blossoms; flowering.
- 2
Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor, vigour; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health.
- 3
A euphemism for the intensifier bloody.
“How'd you like to be shoved in a blooming log?'
adverbe
- 1
A euphemism for the intensifier bloody.
My train's late again. Blooming typical.
‘You give me twelve bob a foot, an’ I’ll bloomin’ quick show you whether I can bore or not.’
“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.”
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. […]”
nom
- 1
The 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.”
- 2
The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.
- 3
A phenomenon where excessive light causes bright patches in a picture.
Formes
- pluriel
- bloomings
- comparatif
- more blooming
- superlatif
- most blooming