bloom·ing (bl  m ng)adv. & adj. Chiefly British Slang Used as an intensive: a blooming hot day; a blooming idiot.
[Probably a euphemism for bloody.] |
blooming [ˈbluːmɪŋ]adv & adj Brit informal (intensifier) a blooming genius blooming painful[euphemistic for bloody]
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms | Noun | 1. | blooming - the organic process of bearing flowers; "you will stop all bloom if you let the flowers go to seed" | | Adj. | 1. | blooming - informal intensifiers; "what a bally (or blinking) nuisance"; "a bloody fool"; "a crashing bore"; "you flaming idiot"unmitigated - not diminished or moderated in intensity or severity; sometimes used as an intensifier; "unmitigated suffering"; "an unmitigated horror"; "an unmitigated lie" |
bloomingadjective1. (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. Translations blooming [ˈbluːmɪŋ]A. ADJ2. ( fig) (= flourishing) → radianteto be blooming with health; be in blooming health → estar rebosante de or rebosar salud blooming [ˈbluːmɪŋ] adjthis 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) blooming [ˈbluːmɪŋ] adj ( fam) → dannato/a, maledetto/athis blooming ... → questo dannato ...
blooming [ˈbluːmɪŋ] adj ( fam) → dannato/a, maledetto/athis blooming ... → questo dannato ...
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| About half a mile from the palace in which they lived there stood a castle, which was uninhabited and almost a ruin, but the garden which surrounded it was a mass of blooming flowers, and in this garden the youngest Princess used often to walk. Her complexion is delicate, but neither so fair nor so blooming as Lady Susan's, and she has quite the Vernon cast of countenance, the oval face and mild dark eyes, and there is peculiar sweetness in her look when she speaks either to her uncle or me, for as we behave kindly to her we have of course engaged her gratitude. Monk may not have as much pride as I have; for I declare if any one had put me into a coffer with that grating over my mouth, and carried me packed up, like a calf, across the seas, I should cherish such a memory of my piteous looks in that coffer, and such an ugly animosity against him who had inclosed me in it, I should dread so greatly to see a sarcastic smile blooming upon the face of the malicious wretch, or in his attitude any grotesque imitation of my position in the box, that, Mordioux |