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Definition: Bloomer |
BloomerNoun1. A flower that blooms in a particular way; "a night bloomer". 2. An embarrassing mistake. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Bloomer \Bloom"er\, noun. [From Mrs. Bloomer, an American, who sought to introduce this style of dress.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | See:blooming mill. (references) |
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Bloomer is a city located in Chippewa County, Wisconsin. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 3,347.Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 7.1 km² (2.8 mi²). 7.0 km² (2.7 mi²) of it is land and 0.2 km² (0.1 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 2.18% water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 3,347 people, 1,424 households, and 901 families residing in the city. The population density is 480.4/km² (1,246.0/mi²). There are 1,487 housing units at an average density of 213.4 persons/km² (553.6 persons/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 99.13% White, 0.06% African American, 0.27% Native American, 0.09% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.06% from other races, and 0.39% from two or more races. 0.33% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 1,424 households out of which 27.8% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 53.7% are married couples living together, 7.3% have a woman whose husband does not live with her, and 36.7% are non-families. 32.2% of all households are made up of individuals and 16.6% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.31 and the average family size is 2.92. In the city the population is spread out with 24.0% under the age of 18, 8.1% from 18 to 24, 26.6% from 25 to 44, 20.7% from 45 to 64, and 20.6% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 39 years. For every 100 females there are 88.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 83.4 males. The median income for a household in the city is $38,715, and the median income for a family is $47,108. Males have a median income of $35,230 versus $19,767 for females. The per capita income for the city is $21,288. 5.4% of the population and 3.1% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 4.1% are under the age of 18 and 8.7% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bloomer (city), Wisconsin."
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Bloomer is a town located in Chippewa County, Wisconsin. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 926.Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 123.8 km² (47.8 mi²). 121.9 km² (47.1 mi²) of it is land and 1.9 km² (0.7 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 1.55% water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 926 people, 321 households, and 246 families residing in the town. The population density is 7.6/km² (19.7/mi²). There are 335 housing units at an average density of 2.7 persons/km² (7.1 persons/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 99.57% White, 0.00% African American, 0.11% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.32% from two or more races. 0.22% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 321 households out of which 38.3% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 67.6% are married couples living together, 4.7% have a woman whose husband does not live with her, and 23.1% are non-families. 17.8% of all households are made up of individuals and 5.6% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.88 and the average family size is 3.29. In the town the population is spread out with 30.5% under the age of 18, 7.8% from 18 to 24, 27.6% from 25 to 44, 24.1% from 45 to 64, and 10.0% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 36 years. For every 100 females there are 105.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 101.9 males. The median income for a household in the town is $40,057, and the median income for a family is $44,028. Males have a median income of $29,327 versus $24,615 for females. The per capita income for the town is $16,243. 6.4% of the population and 4.3% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 9.8% are under the age of 18 and 1.8% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bloomer (town), Wisconsin."
Synonyms: BloomerSynonyms: blooper (n), blunder (n), boner (n), boo-boo (n), botch (n), bungle (n), flub (n), foul-up (n), fuckup (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clothing | Acket, vest, jerkin, waistcoat, doublet, camisole, gabardine; kilt, jupe, crinoline, bustle, panier, skirt, apron, pinafore; bloomer, bloomers; chaqueta, songtag, tablier. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bloomer |
| Specialty definitions using "bloomer": ZOUAVE. (references) |
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Screenplays | I was a late bloomer. (Victor/Victoria; writing credit: Blake Edwards; Hans Hoemburg) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Early Bloomer (2003) Late BLoomer (1997) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Bird's eye view of Bloomer, Wis. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Bloomer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 55.56% of the time. "Bloomer" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 55.56% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (proper) | 44.44% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 18 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "bloomer" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bloomer | Last name | 2,000 | 6,410 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Bloomer, WI (city, FIPS 8225) |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "bloomer": bloomer-curtained. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "bloomer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gafë (balk, baulk, blunder, Boner, faux pas, gaffe, gross fault, howler, slip), gabim trashanik (blunder, foolish mistake, howler). (various references) | |
Arabic | نبات مزهر, خطأ شنيع. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | груба грешка. (various references) | |
Finnish | kömmähdys (blunder, boner, faux pas). (various references) | |
French | bévue (blunder), gaffe (blooper, blunder). (various references) | |
German | Stilblüte (stylistic howler). (various references) | |
Greek | σφάλμα (error, fault, mistake, slip). (various references) | |
Hungarian | nyelvbotlás (a slip of the tongue, blooper, break, lapse of the tongue, slip of the tongue, trip), hiba (aberration, blemish, blooper, blue, bobble, clinker, default, demerit, error, failing, failure, fault, flaw, flub-up, glitch, inaccuracy, lapse, malformation, mischief, mistake, shortcoming, trouble, wrong), gikszer (blooper, false note, goose-note, miscue, trip), baki (blooper, boner, break, clinker, flub-up, howler, slip-up, trip). (various references) | |
Indonesian | orang yang berkembang. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 晩熟 (a late bloomer, late crops), 晩成 (a late bloomer, late completion). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ば"せい (a late bloomer, all ages, companion star, eternity, late completion, rough voice), ば"じゅく (a late bloomer, late crops). (various references) | |
Manx | marran (erratum, gaffe, mistake, slip). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oomerblay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fracasso (abortion, bust, failure, flop, flunk, frost, ill-conceived), disparate (absurdity, balderdash, blather, blether, bosh, bull, bunk, disparate, fiddle-de-dee, fiddlestick, flapdoodle, flummery, foolery, foolishness, fribble, fudge, guff, gup, hot, howler, moonshine, mush, nonsense, piffle, punk, simplicity, skittle, tomfoolery, tommy rot, tripe, tump, twaddle, unreason, unwisdom). (various references) | |
Romanian | greşealã (aberration, blemish, blunder, defect, drawback, error, failing, fault, flaw, lapse, miscarriage, mistake, rub, shortcoming, sin, slip, trespass, wrong), gafã (atrocity, blunder, break, howler, infelicity, offence). (various references) | |
Russian | грубая ошибка (atrocity, blunder, glaring mistake, gross blunder, gross error), промах (boner, muff, slip-up). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | onaj koji cveta. (various references) | |
Spanish | bragas (briefs, drawers, knickers, knick-knackery, panties, panty), pifia (blunder), metedura de pata (Boner, gaffe), metedura de para. (various references) | |
Swedish | blunder (blunder, boob, gaffe), tabbe (Boner, boob, clinker, cock up, faux pas, gaffe, goof, howler, muff, slip). (various references) | |
Turkish | pot (atrocity, blunder, Boner, break, clanger, contretemps, crease, faux pas, gaff, jackpot, kitty, pool, pot, stake), gaf (atrocity, blunder, Boner, break, bull, clanger, contretemps, faux pas, flub, gaff, gaffe, goof, howler, slip, slip of the tongue, slip up). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | шаровари, квітуча рослина, помилка (aberration, balk, bungle, delusion, error, failing, fallacy, fault, inaccuracy, lapsus, misdeed, mistake, sin, slip, solecism, stumble, trip). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | điều sai lầm lớn. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bloomer": bloomeries, bloomers, bloomery. (additional references) | |
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"Bloomer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Baldomero, blome, blomet, bloofer, bloomeries, bloomier, blooser, Bluemner, blume, blumer, Blumier, bolume, loomer, Lutomer, Tloome. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bloomer" (pronounced bluw"mer) |
| 3 | -uw" m er | Boomer, consumer, groomer, humor, rumor, tumor. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: rebloom. | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-l-m-o-o-r" | |
-1 letter: bolero, boomer. | |
-2 letters: bloom, brome, bromo, broom, morel, obole, omber, ombre, roble, romeo. | |
-3 letters: berm, bole, bolo, boom, boor, bore, broo, lobe, lobo, loom, lore, merl, mole, mool, moor, more, oboe, obol, oleo, omer, orle, robe, role, room. | |
-4 letters: bel, boo, bro, elm, lob, loo, mel, mob, mol, moo, mor, obe, ole, orb, ore. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-l-m-o-o-r" | |
+1 letter: bloomers, bloomery, bloomier, reblooms. | |
+2 letters: bolometer, elbowroom, rebloomed. | |
+3 letters: biopolymer, bloomeries, bolometers, bolometric, elbowrooms, embryology, nonproblem, promotable, reblooming. | |
+4 letters: bachelordom, biopolymers, bloodstream, broomballer, comfortable, conformable, corymbosely, footlambert, nonproblems, snowmobiler, troublesome, warmblooded. | |
+5 letters: aeroembolism, bachelordoms, biomolecular, bloodstreams, broomballers, embryologies, embryologist, everblooming, footlamberts, polyembryony, polyribosome, rhombohedral, snowmobilers, timberdoodle. | |
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