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Blooming. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Bibliographic Record Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022. Blooming adj. (common).—This word, similar in type to ‘blessed,’ ‘blamed,’ and other words of the kind is, as used by the lower classes, a euphemism for ‘bloody,’ ‘damned,’ etc.; but it is also frequently a mere meaningless intensitive. [Originating as a modern colloquialism (see quot. 1726) on the Californian coast, chief instrument of its acclimatization in England was Mr. Alfred G. Vance, the comic singer, well-known in connection with ‘Jolly dogs,’ and other extensively popular music-hall songs.]

1   1726.  REV. J. GLANVIL, Sadducismus triumphatus. Under the head of ‘The Demon of Tedworth’ (1661). Glanvil makes mention that on one occasion the spirit came into a room panting like a dog, and company coming up, the room was presently filled with a BLOOMING noisome smell.

2   18[?].  COLONEL JOHN HAY, Ballad, ‘The Mystery of Gilgal.’        He went for his ’leven-inch bowie-knife:— ‘I tries to foller a Christian life, But I ’ll drap a slice of liver or two,     My BLOOMIN’ shrub, with you.’

3   1881.  G. R. SIMS, Dagonet Ballads (‘Told to the Missionary’). I feels like a BLOOMIN’ babby—I gets so infernal weak.

4   1877.  W. H. THOMSON, Five Years’ Penal Servitude, iii. 222. Afore that I worked in the galleries, a making the casemates for the guns, and BLOOMING hard work it was.

5   1880.  GREENWOOD, At Flyfaker’s Hotel, in Odd People in Odd Places, 59. ‘Who’s got any music?’ presently exclaimed the dirty scoundrel who had been mending the boxing-glove;’ ‘—— me, let’s have a BLOOMIN’ lark! Let’s have a tune and a song. Who’s got any BLOOMIN’ music?’

6   1882.  Punch’s Almanac, 4. THE STEAM LAUNCH IN VENICE (‘Sic Transit Gloria Mundi’)—’Andsome ’Arriet: ‘Ow my! If it ’yn’t that BLOOMIN’ old Temple Bar, as they did aw’y with out o’ Fleet Street!’ Mr. Belleville (referring to guide book): ‘Now it ’yn’t. It’s the fymous Bridge o’ Sighs, as Byron went and stood on; ’im as wrote ‘Our Boys,’ yer know!’ ’Andsome ’Arriet: ‘Well, I never!’

7   1884.  W. C. RUSSELL, Jack’s Courtship, xxxviii. ‘And if there’s fire, there ought to be nothen to stop us from cooking a BLOOMIN’ old goat.’

8   1889.  Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday, July 6. ‘Injured Innocence’: Indignant Son of Labour. Well, I’m blowed! If that ’ere BLOOMIN’ swell ain’t a-himitatin’ me!

9   1899.  OUIDA, The Massarenes, 15. Sweet little babies! Precious little poppets! Damm ’em, the whole BLOOMING lot.

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