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Added 9 October 2026

blooming

/ˈbluː.mɪŋ/ noun

In Latin: flōrēns Wiktionary

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about blooming at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

The organic process of bearing flowers.
you will stop all bloom if you let the flowers go to seed

adjective

Informal intensifiers.
what a bally (or blinking) nuisance

Origin

By surface analysis, bloom + -ing.

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