bloomer

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbluː.mə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -uːmə(ɹ)

From Middle English blomer, from blome (“iron ingot”) (modern English bloom), from Old English blōma.

bloomer (plural bloomers)

1. An ironworker.

• Blumer, Bloomer

bloom +‎ -er.

bloomer (plural bloomers)

1. (dated, informal, US) A large or embarrassing mistake; blunder.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:error

   • 1916 March 11, Charles E. Van Loan, “His Folks”, in Saturday Evening Post‎:

     What's more, I claim that Elmer's biggest mistake wasn't the one he made at Cedarville before six thousand witnesses. His prize bloomer was pulled in Hoboken before three witnesses

#* Charles Percy Snow, 1959:

In 1933, four years before his death, Rutherford said, firmly and explicitly, that he didn't believe the energy of the nucleus would ever be released—nine years later, at Chicago, the first pile began to run. That was the only major bloomer in scientific judgment Rutherford ever made.

1. A circular loaf of white bread.
2. A blooming flower.
3. One who blooms, matures, or develops.

   She was a late bloomer.

• late bloomer

Bloom +‎ -er, from the surname of the American woman who sought to introduce this style of dress.

bloomer (plural bloomers)

1. (historical) A costume for women, consisting of a short dress with loose trousers gathered around the ankles, and often a broad-brimmed hat.
2. (historical) A woman who wears a Bloomer costume.

• bloomers

• rebloom

From English bloomers.

• IPA^(key): /blu.mœʁ/

bloomer m (plural bloomers)

1. bloomers