Where does “Bloomer” come from?

Bloomer comes from Middle English bloma, which referred to a mass of iron or steel, though the sense development to the modern meaning remains unclear.

Ancestry of “Bloomer”, step by step

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	English	Bloom	—
2	Swedish	Blom	—
3	Swedish	blomma	a flower; wife; to flower, to bloom, to blossom
4	Old Swedish	blōme	—
5	Old Norse	blómi	—
6	Proto-Germanic	blōmô	flower
7	Proto-Germanic	blōaną	to bloom, to flower
8	Proto-Indo-European	bʰleh₃-	bloom, flower
9	Proto-Indo-European	bʰel-	to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to...
10	Proto-Indo-European	bʰōl-	—

Words derived from “Bloomer”

Bloomerism

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