Noun: bloomer
| Singular | bloomer |
| Plural | bloomers |
Sample Sentences
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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 [1916 March 11, Charles E. Van Loan, “His Folks”, in Saturday Evening Post:]
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"You know," pursued Reggie seriously, "I think you are making the bloomer of a lifetime over this hat-swatting chappie. You've misjudged him. He's a first-rate sort.[…] [1919, P. G. Wodehouse, A Damsel in Distress:]
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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. [1959, Charles Percy Snow, The Two Cultures:]
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After 12 successive league wins[…]Charlton were nobbled by the First Division's no-hopers, who profited from a goalkeeping bloomer then held on to their lead for dear life. [2000 March 12, Stuart Barnes, “Swindon stunner for Curbishley”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:]
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She was a late bloomer.
Nouns inflected like bloomer
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English blomer, from blome (“iron ingot”) (modern English bloom), from Old English blōma. See: Middle English Nouns '
blomer', English Nouns '
bloom', Old English Nouns '
blōma'.