broom
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
business
construction
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
roofing
sports
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.
Inflected forms:
form: brooms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: brooms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: brooming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: broomed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: broomed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Meronyms: broomstick (handle), bavin (head)
gloss: An implement with which players sweep the ice to make a stone travel further and curl less; a sweeper.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] and thy broom groves,
Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves,
Being lass-lorn […]
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A firearm; especially, a shotgun.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rare
slang
uncountable
examples: 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
I just got the drop, there is an opp
OFB step with the broom
He got forced to hold that broom, that dickhead reminds me of Cinderella
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
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
If F’s in the room
step with the broom
finna here a boom with a boom!
gloss: To sweep with a broom.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: […] Sidi, I was busy in the exercise of my functions, occupied in brooming the front of the stables, when who should come but Hhamed Ould Denéï on horseback, at full gallop, as if he were going to break his neck. […]
It was but this morning at eight, when poor Molly, was brooming the steps, and the baker paying her by no means unmerited compliments, that my landlady came whirling out of the ground-floor front, and sent the poor girl whimpering into the kitchen.
After that I did take the broom from its place, and I gave the floor a good brooming. I broomed the boards up and down and cross-ways. There was not a speck of dirt on them left.
We broomed the dirt floor clean with spruce branches, brought our gear inside, and moved in.
gloss: To improve the embedding of a membrane by using a broom or squeegee to smooth it out and ensure contact with the adhesive under the membrane.
pos: verb
gloss: To get rid of someone, like firing an employee or breaking up with a girlfriend, to sweep another out of one's life.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: April 2002 Willem Dafoe as Norman Osborn, speaking to his son Harry, in the film "Spider-Man"
A word to the "not-so-wise" about your girlfriend. Do what you need to with her, then broom her fast.
let the employee leave on his own, or the boss must broom him. If you hire, or inherit, able people, and you groom them, you won't have to broom them. Groom, broom, and watch your company zoom.
I still was going to go with Breslin until one day he said to me, "I got a confession to make to you. When my mother died on her deathbed I promised her I'd never drive a car and I still don't know how to drive a car." I figured for this picture you have to drive a car, so I just decided to broom him and go with an actor.
Derived words: a new broom sweeps clean
Branton
Brimley
Bromley
broomball
broom-bush
broom bush
broombush
broom-clean
broom closet
broom corn
broomcorn
broom cupboard
broomie
brooming
broomland
broomless
broomlike
broommaker
broommaking
broom-rape
broomrape
broom rape
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
scorpion 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
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: جَوْلَق
roman: jawlaq
lang: Basque
word: erratz
lang: Breton
word: balan
lang: Bulgarian
word: зановец
roman: zanovec
lang: Catalan
word: ginesta
lang: Cornish
word: banadhel
lang: Cornish
word: banadhlen
lang: Dutch
word: brem
lang: Finnish
word: vihma
lang: Finnish
word: väriherne
lang: Franco-Provençal
word: argelas
lang: French
word: genêt à balais
lang: French
word: argalou
lang: Old French
word: geneste
lang: Old French
word: genest
lang: Galician
word: xesta
lang: Galician
word: pudia
lang: Galician
word: biorto
lang: Galician
word: piorno
lang: German
word: Ginster
lang: Greek
word: αφάνα
roman: afána
lang: Ancient Greek
word: σπάρτος
roman: spártos
lang: Hebrew
word: רותם
lang: Hebrew
word: רֹתֶם
roman: rótem
lang: Hungarian
word: rekettye
lang: Irish
word: giolcach shléibhe
lang: Italian
word: ginestra
lang: Latin
word: genista
lang: Latin
word: argilāx
lang: Māori
word: tainoka
lang: Māori
word: taunoka
lang: Māori
word: maukoro
lang: Middle English
word: brom
lang: Old English
word: brōm
lang: Polish
word: janowiec
lang: Portuguese
word: gesta
lang: Portuguese
word: giesta
lang: Portuguese
word: giesteira
lang: Romanian
word: drob
lang: Russian
word: раки́тник
roman: rakítnik
lang: Russian
word: мете́льник
roman: metélʹnik
lang: Russian
word: дрок
roman: drok
lang: Scots
word: bruim
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: bealaidh
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: sguab
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: chóšć
lang: Spanish
word: retama
lang: Spanish
word: hiniesta
lang: Spanish
word: genista
lang: Swedish
word: ginst
lang: Walloon
word: djiniesse
lang: Welsh
word: banadl