broom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bro͞om
enpr: bro͝om
ipa: /bɹuːm/
ipa: /bɹʊm/
rhymes: -ʊm
rhymes: -uːm
homophone: brume
Forms: form: brooms
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English brom, from Old English brōm (“brushwood”), from Proto-West Germanic *brām (“bramble”) (compare Saterland Frisian Brom, West Frisian brem, Dutch braam, German Low German Braam), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrem-, from *bʰer- ‘edge’. Related to brim, brink.
Replaced English besom (from Old English besma (“broom, rod”)), which is now restricted in meaning to a particular kind of broom.
(shotgun): So called because it is (like the cleaning utensil) long and held similarly to a besom and “cleans” what is in front.
Senses: examples: Meronyms: broomstick (handle), bavin (head)
hypernyms: utensil#Noun
;
tool#Noun
glosses: A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping.
topics: ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An implement with which players sweep the ice to make a stone travel further and curl less; a sweeper.
examples: text: At the same time, the encroachment of vegetation proceeds apace, and broom and brambles have already made portions of the line impassable, even on foot.
ref: 1949 November and December, “Notes and News: Festiniog and Welsh Highland Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 408:
glosses: Any of several yellow-flowered shrubs of the family Fabaceae, with long, stiff, thin branches and small or few leaves used for the domestic utensil.
examples: text: […] and thy broom groves,
Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves,
Being lass-lorn […]
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
glosses: Any of several yellow-flowered shrubs of the family Fabaceae, with long, stiff, thin branches and small or few leaves used for the domestic utensil.
Especially, of the tribe Genisteae, including genera Cytisus, Genista, and Spartium.
glosses: Any of several yellow-flowered shrubs of the family Fabaceae, with long, stiff, thin branches and small or few leaves used for the domestic utensil.
Of plants not closely related to those of tribe Genisteae.
examples: text: So keep talking all that fly shit, and I’ma grab the tool
And the lead will get stuck in your head like a catchy tune
Soon as I look down on a target, bitch, your ass is doomed
Trust exercise with Ahdi, arms out to catch a boom
You see this sweeper I got, it ain’t your average broom
This ring will wet this bitch like a happy groom
ref: 2015 September 26, Ms. Hustle (lyricist), Ms. Hustle vs. O’fficial (Summer Madness; 5), Ultimate Rap League, from 48:07–48:28:
text: I just got the drop, there is an opp
OFB step with the broom
ref: 2017 July 17, OFB (RV, Kash, Lowkey, Headie One, Bradz & Tuggzy), “Loyal”, 2:45–2:47:
text: He got forced to hold that broom, that dickhead reminds me of Cinderella
ref: 2019 September 11, Yanko, “Next Up”, in #ACGK, 1:59:
text: Pull up to the 🎵 get whacked with the broom
TT liz on my line, so you know it got moved
Distribute, click, click, shoot
That's another face on frontline news
ref: 2020 July 2, “Stop Check”, LR of TPL (lyrics):
text: Back that strap then blaze, fry man
Tell bro “make sure you twos that yute”
Rise that stick when the street needs cleaning
The pigs know this ain't no average broom
ref: 2020 July 3, “Lightwork Freestyle”, Y.CB of 7th (lyrics):
text: If F’s in the room
step with the broom
finna here a boom with a boom!
ref: 2020 October 23, “Talk Bout Hollows”, DBF MD (lyrics), 0:30–0:33:
synonyms: word: broomstick
word: boomstick
word: firearm
word: gat
word: gun
word: iron
word: piece
glosses: A firearm; especially, a shotgun.
Derived terms: a new broom sweeps clean
Branton
Brimley
Bromley
broomball
broom bush
broombush
broom-bush
broom-clean
broom closet
broom corn
broomcorn
broom cupboard
broomie
brooming
broomland
broomless
broomlike
broommaker
broommaking
broom-rape
broom rape
broomrape
broomsedge
broom sedge
broom spurge
broomstaff
broomstick
broomtail
broom up
broom wagon
broomware
broomweed
broomy
butcher's broom
come out of the broom closet
common broom
Corsican broom
dyer's broom
English broom
green broom
High Brooms
new broom
Occam's broom
push broom
pushbroom
push-broom
Scotch broom
Scots broom
Spanish broom
spiny broom
thorny broom
trench broom
Trigger's broom
turpentine broom
whiskbroom
white Spanish broom
witch's broom
yellow broom