brooming

SayBROOM-ing/ˈbɹuːmɪŋ/

Pluralbroomings

2 meanings of brooming

1
nouncountable
An instance of sweeping a surface with a broom.
A thorough brooming of the workshop cleared away months of sawdust.
The shopkeeper's morning brooming left the sidewalk spotless.
Similarsweep
Note
A countable noun, so it takes an article and a plural: a brooming, two broomings. David H. Jacobs's Concrete: a homeowner's illustrated guide (1992) uses it for concrete work, where each pass gets two broomings. Dion Fortune's The Winged Bull (1998) pairs her broomings and brushings to mean housework someone wants to escape. In the plural it can name a whole round of sweeping rather than a single stroke.
2
verb
Present participle of broom.
The janitor is brooming the long corridor before the offices open.
They kept brooming the dusty floor until it finally looked clean.
Note
A participle that carries every job its verb does. Besides ordinary sweeping, brooming a membrane means smoothing it with a broom or squeegee so it meets the adhesive beneath. It can also stand in for bream, the verb for cleaning a ship's bottom. Figuratively, brooming someone means sweeping them out of your life. As a gerund it names the activity itself, close to the countable noun: a brooming, two broomings.

brooming is a form of broom

broom, verb: To clean a floor or surface by sweeping it with a broom. Full entry

Forms: broombrooms he/she/itbrooming -ing formbroomed past tense, past participle
Spelling: broom → brooming: add -ing

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