▪ I. bloomy, a.1
(ˈbluːmɪ)
[f. bloom n.1 + -y1.]
1. Full of blooms or blossoms, flowery. poet.
| 1593 Drayton Eclog. iv. Wks. (1793) 594/1 The bloomy brier. c 1640 Milton Sonn. i, O Nightingale that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve. 1710 Philips Pastorals vi. 24 The bloomy Season of the Year is nigh. 1828 Sterling Ess. & Tales (1848) ii. 199 Over meadow and bloomy bank. |
2. fig. Blooming, in the beauty or flower of youth.
| 1651 Davenant Gondibert iii. iii. iii, Thou who..thy bloomy bride Lead'st to some temple. 1725 Pope Odyss. x. 331 On his bloomy face Youth smil'd celestial. 1807 Crabbe Par. Reg. ii. 356 What if, in both, life's bloomy flush was lost. |
† b. Of language: Flowery, florid. Obs.
| 1685 F. Spence House Medici 282 He top'd him..by strewing his discourse with bloomy, flourishing expressions. |
3. Covered with bloom, as a plum; of the colour of this bloom.
| a 1639 T. Carew Inquiry iii, In bloomy peach, in rosy bud, There wave the streamers of her blood. 1700 Dryden Flower & L. 343 Florence satin, flowered with white and green, And for a shade betwixt the bloomy gridelin. 1844 Hood Haunted H. xxii, Showers of bloomy plums. 1860 T. Martin Horace 267 Rush-bound cucumbers..with their sides of bloomy green. 1881 Mrs. H. Hunt Childr. Jerus. 40 A soft bloomy colour, like corroded old copper. |
4. Comb. bloomy-down, Sweet William (Dianthus barbatus), Britten and Holland.
▪ II. † ˈbloomy, a.2 Obs.
[app. f. bloom n.3 + -y1.]
Of the nature of a bloom (n.3): Hot, close.
| 1620 Venner Via Recta Introd. 5 The north winde might in the Summer passe in, to coole the bloomie aire. 1681 Glanvill Sadducismus ii. 99 The room was presently filled with a bloomy noisome smell, and was very hot. |
b. quasi-adv. After the manner of a bloom.
| 1620 Venner Via Recta (1650) 225 You must beware that the room be not bloomie hot. |