broom
Plural: brooms
Noun
- a cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle
- any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers
- common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere
- A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping.
- An implement with which players sweep the ice to make a stone travel further and curl less; a sweeper.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A firearm; especially, a shotgun.
Verb
Verb Forms: broomed, brooming, brooms
- To sweep or clean with a broom; to clear away.
- sweep with a broom or as if with a broom
- finish with a broom
- To sweep with a 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.
- to get rid of someone, like firing an employee or breaking up with a girlfriend, to sweep another out of one's life
- Alternative form of bream (“to clean a ship's bottom”).
Intj
- Alternative form of brrm (“sound of a car engine”) (often used reduplicatively)
Examples
- He needed to BROOM away the low-scoring tiles from his rack to get better letters.
- I'm in me mum's car, broom broom
Origin / 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.
Synonyms
Calluna vulgaris, heather, ling, Scots heather, sweep, boomstick, broomstick, firearm, gat, gun, iron, piece
Scrabble Score: 9
broom: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordbroom: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
broom: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary