bloomer
pronunciation
How to pronounce bloomer in British English:
UK [ˈblu:mə(r)]
How to pronounce bloomer in American English:
US ['blumər]
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- Noun:
- a flower that blooms in a particular way
- an embarrassing mistake
Word Origin
- bloomer
- bloomer: [19] Bloomers, long loose trousers worn by women, were not actually invented by someone called Bloomer – the credit for that seems to go to a Mrs Elizabeth Smith Miller of New York – but their first advocate was Amelia Jenks Bloomer (1818–94), a US feminist who strongly promoted their use in the early 1850s as a liberated garment for women. The extent to which this became a cause célèbre can be gauged by the fact that it gave rise to so-called Bloomerism, a movement for ‘rationalizing’ women’s dress; in 1882 Lady Harberton wrote in Macmillan’s Magazine ‘“Bloomerism” still lurks in many a memory’. Bloomer ‘mistake’ is late 19th-century, and apparently originally Australian.Early commentators derived it, not altogether convincingly, from ‘blooming error’.
- bloomer (n.)
- 1730, agent noun from bloom (v.).
Example
- 1. Murakami was a late bloomer , writing his first work at age 29 .
- 2. He was a late bloomer to drug use , but he loved his weed .
- 3. You 're a late bloomer , gibbs .
- 4. On her school experience , leighton has said , " I wasn 't popular . I 'm a late bloomer . "
- 5. Without old huang , linlin could not have been an early bloomer .