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Definitions and meaning of broom

broom

Pronunciation

• enPR: bro͞om, bro͝om, IPA^(key): /bɹuːm/, /bɹʊm/
• Rhymes: -ʊm, -uːm

Etymology 1

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.

(shotgun): So called because it is (like the cleaning utensil) long and held similarly to a besom and “cleans” what is in front.

Noun

broom (countable and uncountable, plural brooms)

1. (countable) A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping.

   Synonym: besom

2. (countable, curling) An implement with which players sweep the ice to make a stone travel further and curl less; a sweeper.
3. 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.
   1. especially, of the tribe Genisteae, including genera Cytisus, Genista, and Spartium
   2. of plants not closely related to those of tribe Genisteae.
4. (slang, rare) A shotgun.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:firearm

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Chinook Jargon: bloom

Translations

Verb

broom (third-person singular simple present brooms, present participle brooming, simple past and past participle broomed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To sweep with a broom.
   • 1855 September 29, Charles Dickens, "Model Officials", in Household Words: A Weekly Journal, Bradbury and Evens (1856), page 206:

     “ […] 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. […] ”

   • a. 1857, William Makepeace Thackeray, Our Street, in Christmas Books: Mrs. Perkins's Ball, Our Street, Dr. Birch, Chapman & Hall (1857), Our Street page 8:

     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.

   • a. 1920, Opal Stanley Whiteley, The Story of Opal: The Journal of an Understanding Heart, Atlantic Monthly Press (1920), pages 58–59:

     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.
2. (roofing) 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.
3. (figurative) to get rid of someone, like firing an employee or breaking up with a girlfriend, to sweep another out of one's life
   • 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.

   • August 2002 Jeffrey J. Fox How to Become a Great Boss: The Rules for Getting and Keeping the Best Employees page 15

     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.

Quotations

• For more quotations using this term, see Citations:broom.

Translations

Etymology 2

Verb

broom (third-person singular simple present brooms, present participle brooming, simple past and past participle broomed)

1. (nautical) Alternative form of bream (“to clean a ship's bottom”)

References

• “broom”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Etymology 3

Interjection

broom

1. Alternative form of brrm (“sound of a car engine”)

See also

• High Brooms

References

• “broom”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Rombo, bromo, bromo-, ombro-

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

Noun

broom (uncountable)

1. bromine

Hypernyms

• halogeen

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French brome. Coined by Antoine-Jérôme Balard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /broːm/
• Hyphenation: broom
• Rhymes: -oːm

Noun

broom n (uncountable)

1. bromine [from mid-19th c.]

   Synonym: bromium

Estonian

Etymology

German Brom.

Noun

broom (genitive broomi, partitive broomi)

1. bromine

Declension

Further reading

• “broom”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• broom in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Middle English

Noun

broom

1. Alternative form of brom