英和和英

発音

• 韻: -uːmi

形容詞

bloomy (comparative more bloomy, superlative most bloomy)

1. Having or resembling a bloom (as on fruit).
   • 1725, Homer, “Book I”, in [Elijah Fenton], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume I, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC, page 22, lines 148–151:

     There young Telemachus, his bloomy face / Glovving cæleſtial-ſvveet vvith godlike grace, / Amid the Circle ſhines: but hope and fear / (Painful viciſſitude!) his boſom tear.

     A figurative use.

   • 2007 May 2, Florence Fabricant, “Lacking Alps, goats settle in Westchester”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     Ms. Schwartz, above, a former management consultant who studied the craft in France, makes several delicately tangy cheeses, including an ash-coated pyramid, a soft herb-flecked one and another with a tender, bloomy rind.

     (Can we archive this URL?)

2. Full of blooms; flowering.

   a bloomy garden

派生語

• bloominess