Blooming vs Blimming - What's the difference?
blooming | blimming |
Opening in blossoms; flowering.
Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor, vigour; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health.
(British, euphemistic) bloody (in its vulgar senses ).
Bloody; bleeding; extremely.
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, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=3
, passage=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. […]”}}
The act by which something blooms.
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, passage=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.” }}
(metallurgy) The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.
(photography) A phenomenon where excessive light causes bright patches in a picture.
(UK, slang) Blooming (as an intensifier ).
Blimming is a synonym of blooming.
As adjectives the difference between blooming and blimming
is that blooming is opening in blossoms; flowering while blimming is blooming (as an intensifier).As adverbs the difference between blooming and blimming
is that blooming is bloody; bleeding; extremely while blimming is very; blooming.As a verb blooming
is present participle of lang=en.As a noun blooming
is the act by which something blooms.blooming
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(en adjective)Synonyms
* (opening in blossoms ): blossoming, flowering, in bloom, in blossom, in flower * (thriving in health, beauty and vigor/vigour ): blossoming, flourishing, thriving * (euphemism for "bloody" ): bally (British), blasted, blinkingAdverb
(en adverb)George Goodchild
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blimming
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Adjective
(-)- I don't want to buy any blimming brushes, so kindly go away!