blooth

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bluːθ/

Noun

blooth (countable and uncountable, plural blooths)

1. (UK, dialect) Alternative form of blowth (“blossom; bloom”).
   • 1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     All that blooth means heavy autumn work for him and his hands. If no blight happens before the setting the apple yield will be such as we have not had for years.

   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC:

     'Are you afraid?'
     'Oh no, sir ... not of outdoor things; especially just now when the apple-blooth is falling, and everything is so green.'

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “blooth”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.