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bloom·ing

(blo͞o′mĭng)

adv. & adj. Chiefly British Slang

Used as an intensive: a blooming hot day; a blooming idiot.

[Probably a euphemism for bloody.]

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blooming

(ˈbluːmɪŋ)

adv, adj

informal Brit (intensifier): a blooming genius; blooming painful.

[C19: euphemistic for bloody]

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bloom•ing

(ˈblu mɪŋ)

adj.

1. flowering; blossoming.

2. glowing, as with vigor.

3. prospering.

4. Chiefly Brit. (used as an intensifier.)

[1350–1400; as intensifier, a euphemism for bloody]

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Noun	1.	blooming - the organic process of bearing flowers; "you will stop all bloom if you let the flowers go to seed" bloom biological process, organic process - a process occurring in living organisms
Adj.	1.	blooming - informal intensifiers; "what a bally (or blinking) nuisance"; "a bloody fool"; "a crashing bore"; "you flaming idiot" bally, crashing, flaming, fucking, blinking, bloody unmitigated - not diminished or moderated in intensity or severity; sometimes used as an intensifier; "unmitigated suffering"; "an unmitigated horror"; "an unmitigated lie"

blooming

adjective

1. (Informal) damned, bloody (slang, chiefly Brit.) (slang), flaming (informal), fucking (offensive taboo slang), bleeding (Brit. slang), freaking (slang, chiefly U.S.), rotten, blinking (informal), confounded, ruddy (informal, chiefly Brit.), infernal, deuced (Brit. informal), wretched, frigging (taboo slang) It's a blooming nuisance because it frightens my dog to death.

2. glowing, great, fine, fantastic, radiant She's in blooming health.

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blooming

adjective

1. Bright and clear in complexion; not dull or faded:

creamy, fresh, glowing, peaches-and-cream.

2. Of a healthy reddish color:

florid, flush, flushed, full-blooded, glowing, rosy, rubicund, ruddy, sanguine.

3. Chiefly British. Completely such, without qualification or exception:

absolute, all-out, arrant, complete, consummate, crashing, damned, dead, downright, flat, out-and-out, outright, perfect, plain, pure, sheer, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unbounded, unequivocal, unlimited, unmitigated, unqualified, unrelieved, unreserved, utter.

Informal: flat-out, positive.

4. Chiefly British. So annoying or detestable as to deserve condemnation:

accursed, blasted, blessed, bloody, confounded, cursed, damn, darn, execrable, infernal.

Informal: blamed, damned.

Chiefly British: ruddy.

Translations

effloraison

blooming

[ˈbluːmɪŋ]

A. ADJ

1. [tree] → floreciente, en flor

2. (fig) (= flourishing) → radiante
to be blooming with health; be in blooming health → estar rebosante de or rebosar salud

3. (Brit) the blooming car wouldn't start → el maldito coche no arrancaba
get that blooming thing out of the way! → ¡quita eso de ahí, hombre!

B. ADV (Brit) I think it's blooming marvellous → a mí me parece genial
we had to lift this blooming great box → tuvimos que levantar un pedazo de caja enorme or una caja de agárrate y no te menees

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blooming

[ˈbluːmɪŋ] adj
this blooming ... → ce fichu ..., ce sacré ...

blooming

prp of bloom

adj (inf) → verflixt (inf); it was there all the blooming time → verflixt, das war schon die ganze Zeit da! (inf)

adv → verflixt (inf)

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blooming

[ˈbluːmɪŋ] adj (fam) → dannato/a, maledetto/a
this blooming ... → questo dannato ...

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"The rose in the valley is blooming so sweet, And angels descend there the children to greet."

Gerda kissed his cheeks, and they grew quite blooming; she kissed his eyes, and they shone like her own; she kissed his hands and feet, and he was again well and merry.

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That apple tree was always very late in blooming, and this year it was a week later than usual.

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They laughed loudly at their old-fashioned attire, the wide-skirted coats and flapped waistcoats of the young men, and the ancient cap and gown of the blooming girl.

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It was so with Elizabeth, still the same handsome Miss Elliot that she had begun to be thirteen years ago, and Sir Walter might be excused, therefore, in forgetting her age, or, at least, be deemed only half a fool, for thinking himself and Elizabeth as blooming as ever, amidst the wreck of the good looks of everybody else; for he could plainly see how old all the rest of his family and acquaintance were growing.

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Not another word did she say until they had left the village and were driving down a steep little hill, the road part of which had been cut so deeply into the soft soil, that the banks, fringed with blooming wild cherry-trees and slim white birches, were several feet above their heads.