broom

See also: Broom and broom-

English

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A man using a broom (utensil for sweeping)

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#BROOMCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#BROOM brom, from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#BROOMCategory:English terms derived from Old English#BROOM brōm (“brushwood”), from Proto-West GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#BROOMCategory:English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#BROOM *brām (“bramble”) (compare Saterland Frisian Brom, West Frisian brem, Dutch braam, German Low German Braam), from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#BROOM *bʰrem-, from *bʰer- ‘edge’. Related to brim, brink.

Replaced English besom (from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#BROOMCategory:English terms derived from Old English#BROOM 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.

Noun

broom (countable and uncountable, plural brooms)Category:English lemmas#BROOMCategory:English nouns#BROOMCategory:English uncountable nouns#BROOMCategory:English countable nouns#BROOMCategory:English countable nouns#BROOMCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BROOMCategory:Pages with entries#BROOMCategory:Pages with 5 entries#BROOM

  2. (countableCategory:English countable nouns#BROOM) A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping.
    Hypernyms: utensilCategory:English links with manual fragments#BROOM; toolCategory:English links with manual fragments#BROOM
    Hyponyms: push broom; witch's besom < besom
    Meronyms: broomstick (handle), bavinCategory:English links with manual fragments#BROOM (head)
  4. (countableCategory:English countable nouns#BROOM, curlingCategory:en:Curling#BROOM) An implement with which players sweep the ice to make a stone travel further and curl less; a sweeper.
  6. 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.
    • 1949 November and December, “Notes and News: Festiniog and Welsh Highland Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 408:
      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.
      Category:English terms with quotations#BROOM
    1. Especially, of the tribe Genisteae, including genera Cytisus, Genista, and Spartium.
    2. Of plants not closely related to those of tribe Genisteae.
  8. (slangCategory:English slang#BROOM, rareCategory:English terms with rare senses#BROOM) Category:en:Firearms#BROOM A firearm; especially, a shotgun.
    Synonyms: broomstick, boomstick; see also Thesaurus:firearm
    Hyponyms: trench broom; see also Thesaurus:firearm
    • 2015 September 26, Ms. Hustle (lyricist), Ms. Hustle vs. O’fficial (Summer Madness; 5)‎, Ultimate Rap League, from 48:07–48:28:
      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
      Category:English terms with quotations#BROOM
    • 2017 July 17, OFB (RV, Kash, Lowkey, Headie One, Bradz & Tuggzy), “Loyal”‎, 2:45–2:47:
      I just got the drop, there is an opp
      OFB step with the broom
      Category:English terms with quotations#BROOM
    • 2019 September 11, Yanko, “Next Up”, in #ACGK‎, 1:59:
      He got forced to hold that broom, that dickhead reminds me of Cinderella
      Category:English terms with quotations#BROOM
    • 2020 July 2, “Stop Check”, LR of TPL (lyrics)‎:
      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
      Category:English terms with quotations#BROOM
    • 2020 July 3, “Lightwork Freestyle”, Y.CB of 7th (lyrics)‎:
      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
      Category:English terms with quotations#BROOM
    • 2020 October 23, “Talk Bout Hollows”, DBF MD (lyrics), 0:30–0:33:
      If F’s in the room
      step with the broom
      finna here a boom with a boom!
      Category:English terms with quotations#BROOM
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Chinook Jargon: bloom
Translations
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Verb

broom (third-person singular simple present brooms, present participle brooming, simple past and past participle broomed)Category:English lemmas#BROOMCategory:English verbs#BROOMCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BROOMCategory:Pages with entries#BROOMCategory:Pages with 5 entries#BROOM

  1. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#BROOM, intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#BROOM) 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.
    • 1997, Will Hobbs, Far North, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 100:
      We broomed the dirt floor clean with spruce branches, brought our gear inside, and moved in.
      Category:English terms with quotations#BROOM
  2. (roofingCategory:en:Roofing#BROOM) 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.
    • 2012, George Stevens Jr., Conversations at the American Film Institute with the Great Moviemakers: The Next Generation, page 204:
      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.
      Category:English terms with quotations#BROOM
      Category:Quotation templates to be cleaned
Quotations
Translations

Etymology 2

Verb

broom (third-person singular simple present brooms, present participle brooming, simple past and past participle broomed)Category:English lemmas#BROOMCategory:English verbs#BROOMCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BROOMCategory:Pages with entries#BROOMCategory:Pages with 5 entries#BROOM

  1. (nauticalCategory:en:Nautical#BROOM) Alternative form of bream (“to clean a ship's bottom”).

References

Etymology 3

Interjection

broomCategory:English lemmas#BROOMCategory:English interjections#BROOMCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BROOMCategory:Pages with entries#BROOMCategory:Pages with 5 entries#BROOM

  1. Alternative form of brrm (“sound of a car engine”) (often used reduplicatively)
    I'm in me mum's car, broom broomCategory:English terms with collocations#BROOM
Translations

See also

References

  • “broom”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

Category:en:Genisteae tribe plants#BROOMCategory:en:Cleaning#BROOMCategory:en:Hygiene#BROOM

Afrikaans

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Chemical element (edit)
Br
Atomic number 35
broom
Classification data
Period 4
Group 17
Block p-block
Class halogen
Previous: ← seleen (Se)
Next: kripton (Kr) →
Category:af:Chemical elementsCategory:af:HalogensCategory:af:Period 4 elementsCategory:af:Group 17 elementsCategory:af:P-block elements

Pronunciation

Noun

broom (uncountable)Category:Afrikaans lemmas#BROOMCategory:Afrikaans nouns#BROOMCategory:Afrikaans entries with incorrect language header#BROOMCategory:Pages with entries#BROOMCategory:Pages with 5 entries#BROOMCategory:Afrikaans uncountable nouns#BROOM

  1. bromine

Hypernyms

Category:af:Halogens#BROOM

Dutch

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Chemical element (edit)
Br
Atomic number 35
broom
Classification data
Period 4
Group 17
Block p-block
Class halogen
Previous: ← seleen (Se)
Next: krypton (Kr) →
Category:nl:Chemical elementsCategory:nl:HalogensCategory:nl:Period 4 elementsCategory:nl:Group 17 elementsCategory:nl:P-block elements

Etymology

Borrowed from FrenchCategory:Dutch terms borrowed from French#BROOMCategory:Dutch terms derived from French#BROOM brome. Coined by Antoine-Jérôme Balard.

Pronunciation

Noun

broom n (uncountable, no diminutive)Category:Dutch lemmas#BROOMCategory:Dutch nouns#BROOMCategory:Dutch uncountable nouns#BROOMCategory:Dutch entries with incorrect language header#BROOMCategory:Dutch neuter nouns#BROOMCategory:Pages with entries#BROOMCategory:Pages with 5 entries#BROOM

  1. bromine [from mid-19th c.]
    Synonym: bromium

Estonian

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Chemical element (edit)
Br
Atomic number 35
broom
Classification data
Period 4
Group 17
Block p-block
Class halogen
Previous: ← seleen (Se)
Next: krüptoon (Kr) →
Category:et:Chemical elementsCategory:et:HalogensCategory:et:Period 4 elementsCategory:et:Group 17 elementsCategory:et:P-block elements

Etymology

GermanCategory:Estonian terms borrowed from German#BROOMCategory:Estonian terms derived from German#BROOM Brom.

Category:Estonian terms derived from French#BROOMCategory:Estonian terms derived from Ancient Greek#BROOM

Noun

broom (genitive broomi, partitive broomi)Category:Estonian lemmas#BROOMCategory:Estonian nouns#BROOMCategory:Estonian entries with incorrect language header#BROOMCategory:Pages with entries#BROOMCategory:Pages with 5 entries#BROOM

  1. bromine

Declension

Declension of broom (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation)
singular plural
nominative broom broomid
accusative nom.
gen. broomi
genitive broomide
partitive broomi broome
broomisid
illative broomi
broomisse		 broomidesse
broomesse
inessive broomis broomides
broomes
elative broomist broomidest
broomest
allative broomile broomidele
broomele
adessive broomil broomidel
broomel
ablative broomilt broomidelt
broomelt
translative broomiks broomideks
broomeks
terminative broomini broomideni
essive broomina broomidena
abessive broomita broomideta
comitative broomiga broomidega
Category:Estonian riik-type nominals#BROOM

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

broomCategory:Middle English alternative forms#BROOMCategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#BROOMCategory:Pages with entries#BROOMCategory:Pages with 5 entries#BROOM

  1. alternative form of brom
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