bloomern.1
/ˈbluːmə/, U.S. /ˈblumər/ 1.
a. A plant that blooms (in some way).
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the world > plants > valued plants and weeds > [noun] > valued plant > flower or plant esteemed for its blossoms
flower?a1513
bloomer1736
blower1796
the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > [noun]
flower?a1513
gentle-heart1648
bloomer1736
blower1796
phaenogam1846
phanerogam1861
1736 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum (ed. 2) Bloomers, blooming buds.
1882 Garden 7 Jan. 8/2 Those that have a tendency to be shy bloomers are placed in the lightest part of the house.
1885 Harper's Mag. Apr. 710/2 A New England white rose, a perennial bloomer.
b. [Perhaps a different word.] A large white crusty loaf resembling the Vienna roll, with a rounded diagonally slashed top, and baked on the oven bottom. Also attributive, as bloomer loaf.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > loaf > [noun] > other types of loaf
white loafeOE
barley loafc950
French loafc1350
pease loafc1390
penny loaf1418
jannock?a1500
household loaf1565
boon-loaf1679
farmhouse loaf1795
cottage loaf1829
potato loaf1831
sod1836
Coburg1843
sweet roll1851
stale1874
Hovis1890
Sally Lunn1901
bloomer loaf1937
wholemeal1957
baguette1958
1937 W. T. Banfield in Brit. Baker 12 Mar. 20/1 This bloomer loaf is also the easiest loaf to cut into slices... The loaf is glazed by setting the dough into a suitably humid oven... A genuine bloomer is enriched with milk, sugar, lard or butter.
1958 Times 21 Nov. 7/2 Rye loaves, wheatmeal loaves, baton-shaped loaves called ‘Bloomers’, Scottish baps, all had a place.
1969 M. Wiggin Cottage Idyll iv. 114 I bought my bread, saying clearly and distinctly, ‘Two small bloomer loaves, please.’
2. [for blooming letter : see blooming adj. 6.] A floriated initial letter of the alphabet.
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society > communication > writing > written text > decoration > [noun] > decorated letters
red lettera1387
blooming (initial) letter1713
miniature initial1895
versal1895
bloomer1899
1899 J. W. Mackail Life W. Morris II. 256 The large floriated initials, or ‘bloomers’, in the slang of the press.
1901 Sunday Times 21 Apr. This book will be in the new type, with a fresh set of ‘bloomers’ specially designed for it.
3. slang. [See quot. 1889.] A very great mistake: chiefly in to make a bloomer.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > blunder [verb (intransitive)]
shail1528
blunder1711
floor1835
to make a bloomer1889
pull1913
to drop a brick1916
boob1935
to put up a black1939
goof1941
to screw up1942
to drop a bollock1948
to drop a clanger1948
to cock up1974
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > [noun] > serious error, blunder
blunder1706
blunderbuss1726
floor1841
bull1846
howler1872
atrocity1878
break1884
bloomer1889
boner1912
bish1937
black1939
blue1941
cock-up1946
piss-up1950
screw-up1950
blob1952
1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang Bloomer (Australian), prison slang for a mistake. Abbreviated from the expression ‘a blooming error’.
1902 Westm. Gaz. 25 Nov. 8/1 The defendant replied, ‘You have made a bloomer, old chap; you never made a greater mistake in your life.’
1919 P. G. Wodehouse Damsel in Distress xv. 166 I think you are making the bloomer of a lifetime over this hat-swatting chappie.
1928 Daily Express 19 Apr. 15 His mount, Clearmount, made a terrible bloomer at the last fence.
1959 Economist 6 June 920/1 ‘The Times’..has this week made a bloomer about a minister.
Compounds
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bloomer-pit n. a tan-pit or large vat in which hides are treated with a strong infusion of tanning liquor or ooze; a ‘layer’.
Draft additions March 2004
figurative. A person who is reaching maturity or in the process of realizing his or her potential; a person or thing as judged on rate of development or achievement (usually expressed by a preceding adjective). See also early bloomer n. (b) at early adj. and n. Compounds 2, late bloomer n. (b) at late adj.1 Compounds 4.
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1814 F. Burney Wanderer III. lviii. 392 The test of sense and temper in the waning beauty..in maturity, shocked and amazed to see herself supplanted by the rising bloomers.
1961 Science 10 Nov. 1493/2 The slow bloomers—words that achieved full status only after lingering in the Addenda from 1945 on.
1989 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 19 Apr. 1 d The Pirates say Dunne, the belated bloomer, still hasn't come to full flower.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
bloomern.2
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a. (More fully Bloomer costume, bloomer dress): A style of female attire consisting of a short skirt and long loose trousers gathered closely round the ankles. So attributive Bloomer principles, bloomer movement.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > set or suit of clothes > [noun] > for specific people > for women > other
ensemble1802
Bloomer costume1851
coat and skirt1895
blouse suit1905
jumper suit1908
suit dress1917
tailleur1923
twin set1937
salwar-kameez1955
co-ordinates1959
theatre suit1964
trikini1967
1851 Boston Transcript 27 May 2/3 The Bee says the daughter of Dr. Hanson, of this city, appeared in the Bloomer suit..last week.
1851 Boston Transcript 29 May 2/4 The first ‘Bloomer’ made its appearance in our city yesterday.
1851 Boston Transcript 29 May 2/4 Quite a large number of young ladies in that city have made arrangements to attend church tomorrow in the Bloomer costume.
1853 ‘Old Etonian’ Alphabet Annotated 61 Until they all the Bloomer dress assume.
1855 Kansas Tribune Perhaps Lawrence [Kansas] is the only city in America where the majority of the ladies wear Bloomers.
1868 Reade True Love II. iv. 154 At sight of Miss Courtenay in a Bloomer he was ravished.
1875 I. L. Bird Hawaiian Archipel. x. 130 Deborah looked very piquante in a bloomer dress of dark blue.
b. Regularly in plural. Loose trousers reaching to the knee or knickerbockers worn by women for bicycling, gymnasium practice, etc.; called also ‘rational dress’. Also, a woman's knee-length undergarment (the usual sense in later usage).In quots. 1862, 1863, man's attire.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > types of > wide or loose
slops1481
shipman's hose1540
slop1560
shipman's breek1563
drawers1567
kelsouns1568
scaling1577
scavilones1577
scabilonian1600
calzoons1615
linings1631
swabber-slopsa1658
pantaloon1686
underslops1737
trousers1773
pyjamas1801
Cossacks1820
Turkish trousers1821
hakama1822
salwar1824
slacks1824
sherwal1844
overall1845
bag1853
sack-pants1856
bloomer1862
trouser skirt1883
petticoat trousers1885
mompe1908
step-in1922
bombachas1936
baggies1962
jams1966
palazzo1970
hose-
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > types of > wide or loose > for cycling, etc.
pantaloon1814
pants1851
trouserettes1857
pantalettes1881
rationals1889
bloomer1895
pantalettes1897
1862 C. Dickens Somebody's Luggage: His Boots in All Year Round Extra Christmas No., 4 Dec. 9/1 A Corporal of his country's army, in..the line of his waist, the broadest line of his Bloomer trousers, and their narrowest line at the calf of his leg.
1863 Miss Jemima's Swiss Jrnl. (1963) i. 7 Soldiers in many uniforms, some of them most laughable, their capacious bloomer costume reaching to the centre of the calf of the leg.
1895 Westm. Gaz. 25 July 8/1 Female teachers who have been riding bicycles in male attire, commonly called bloomers.
1906 J. Galsworthy Man of Prop. iii. i. 289 She could tell you..what they were doing in Paris about wearing bloomers.
1909 Daily Chron. 5 Aug. 7/3 [The hockey girl] in her short skirts, bloomers, flannel blouse, and cloth cap.
1967 Observer 30 Apr. 29/3 The tireless search for something else has paused for a moment to put matching bloomers or shorts under the skirt.
2. A woman who wears bloomer costume.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [noun] > wearing other clothing > one who
Court-mantlec1367
Sunday citizen1598
longcoat1603
lettice ruffa1625
silkworma1625
copester1637
short-coat1649
Scotch-sleeve?1706
Evite1713
uniform1786
nude1810
blue-stockinged1818
waistcoateer1825
padder1828
stook of duds1834
bloomer1851
sleeve1851
shirt1860
shirtwaister1900
DJ1926
rat-catcher1928
sweater girl1940
zoot-suiter1942
Edwardian1954
penguin1967
overcoat1969
1851 Punch 30 Aug. 103/2 If women assume the dress of men, let them undertake men's duties; hence, every Bloomer shall be liable to be drawn for the militia, without benefit of substitute.
1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour viii. xliii. 238 (heading) A Literary Bloomer.
1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour viii. xliii. 239 Lucy,—a young lady of a certain age—say liberal thirty—an ardent Bloomer.
1854 Congress. Globe 20 May App. 717 Bloomers wearing the apparel of men, and men wrapped in the apparel of women.
1868 Reade True Love II. ii. 153 She then burst out crying, which was an unfair advantage the Bloomer took over poor Reginald.
3. A kind of hat with a broad brim worn by ladies.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > with a brim > broad-brimmed > other
petasus1577
bongrace1585
sombrero1770
parachute1786
Pamela hat1802
Gainsborough1878
bloomer1883
cartwheel1884
picture hat1887
cowgirl hat1897
Stetsonc1900
shtreimel1902
Merry Widow1908
ten-gallon hat1928
lemon-squeezer1953
Smokey Bear1969
Akubra1973
1883 Life Mrs. Prentiss vi. 177 A small shawl and my bloomer on.
Derivatives
ˈbloomered adj. wearing bloomer costume.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing a suit or set of clothes > types of
pyjamaed1883
blue-suited1884
bloomered1895
zoot-suited1942
bikinied1959
sailor-suited1960
trouser-suited1966
sack-suited1978
shell-suited1991
1895 Advance (Chicago) 6 June 1287 The ‘new woman’,..though not necessarily of the bloomered type, is marching..to victory in Wisconsin.
1900 Daily News 4 Dec. 6/5 In these days of Lady Wranglers and bloomered ‘sportswomen’.
1907 Westm. Gaz. 2 Oct. 1/3 The outer lines were marked by companies of..bloomered Tirailleurs.
1960 Times 27 Sept. 13/6 A bloomered girl in the foreground.
ˈbloomerism n. the principles of Amelia Bloomer as to female costume.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > set or suit of clothes > [noun] > for specific people > for women > other > principles of
bloomerism1851
1851 (title) ‘Bloomerism’, or the new female costume of 1851.
1857 C. Reade Course True Love II. ii. 134 She was pretty far gone in bloomerism.
1882 Lady Harberton Dress Reform in Macmillan's Mag. 45 456 ‘Bloomerism’ still lurks in many a memory.
ˈbloomerize v. (transitive) to dress in bloomers; also figurative.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > in specific way > with specific garments > trousers
breech1468
trouser1867
bloomerize1885
1885 E. Lynn Linton Autobiogr. Christopher Kirkland III. i. 18 Doubtful whether they were girls Bloomerized or boys in feminine tunics.
1897 Daily News 3 Feb. 6/4 The New Woman..has fairly bloomerised journalism in the United States.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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