broom

Meaning

Noun

1. A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping.
2. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. (slang) A shotgun.

Verb

1. To sweep with a broom.
2. 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. to get rid of someone, like firing an employee or breaking up with a girlfriend, to sweep another out of one's life

Verb

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

Intj

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

Synonyms

besom

brush

sweep

sweeper

Scots heather

heather

mop

Calluna vulgaris

ling

genista

mane

napkin

plant

🌱

rake

ridge

rod

scolding

scrubber

spiny

switch

towel

whisk

spoondrift

common broom

broom-stick

push broom

broom corn

Scotch broom

fine spray

grass tree

sweeping brush

broomstick

brow

burke

comb

cow

🐮

crest

dust

grass

heath

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bɹuːm/

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