1. A flower that blooms in a particular way
   "a night bloomer"
    
2. [informal] An embarrassing mistake
   "The bloomer in scheduling resulted in double-booked meeting rooms";
   - blunder, blooper [N. Amer, informal], bungle, pratfall [informal], foul-up [informal], flub [N. Amer, informal], botch, boner [N. Amer, informal], boo-boo [informal], boob [Brit, informal], goof [informal], blue [Austral, NZ, informal]
    
3. [Brit] A rounded loaf of white bread
   "He sliced the fresh bloomer for sandwiches"

Derived forms: bloomers

Type of: error, fault, flower, mistake

Encyclopedia: Bloomer, Steve