blooming
adjective or adverbDefinition of blooming
2
: thriving in health, beauty, and vigor : exhibiting the freshness and beauties of youth or health
… ever since she was a blooming lass of twenty.— George Eliot … a smart, pretty girl of nineteen, with … a round face, bright, blooming cheeks, glossy, clustering curls, and little merry brown eyes.— Anne Brontë
3
chiefly British, informal
—used as a generalized intensive a blooming foolHe's a blooming busybody: that's what he is.— George Bernard Shaw
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The first known use of blooming was in 1592
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