blooming vs frou-frou

blooming

noun
  • A phenomenon where excessive light causes bright patches in a picture. 

  • The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron. 

  • The act by which something blooms. 

adv
  • Bloody; bleeding; extremely. 

adj
  • Opening in blossoms; flowering. 

  • Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor, vigour; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health. 

frou-frou

noun
  • A rustling sound, particularly the rustling of a large silk dress. 

adj
  • Liable to create the sound of rustling cloth, similar to 19th-century dresses. 

  • Unimportant, silly, useless. 

  • Highly ornamented, overly elaborate; excessively girly. 

verb
  • To move with the sound of rustling dresses. 

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