blooming

blooming
bloomingly, adv.bloomingness, n.
/blooh"ming/, adj.
1. in bloom; flowering; blossoming.
2. glowing, as with youthful vigor and freshness: blooming cheeks.
3. flourishing; prospering: a blooming business.
4. Chiefly Brit. Slang. (used as an intensifier): He's got his blooming nerve.
adv.
5. Chiefly Brit. Slang. (used as an intensifier): not blooming likely.
[1350-1400; ME; see BLOOM1, -ING2; as intensifier, a euphemism for BLOODY, by phonetic similarity]

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