這個拼法是2個不同的字· 2 words spelled “bloomer”
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- 2bloomer · embarrassing slip出糗的錯誤；糗事One way to hold this word: something that opens up, in its own time, where people can see it.
bloomer · baggy knee-length underwear
nThis one is not about flowers at all. A person's surname became the name of a garment: Amelia Bloomer argued for clothes women could move in, and the trousers ended up carrying her name. So the picture to hold here is a name on a label, not a plant opening. That is also why it lives only in the plural — bloomers, like trousers.
From the word’s history
Wiktionary gives this as a separate etymology: named after the American women's-rights activist Amelia Bloomer (1818-1894), who sought to introduce this style of dress.
Wiktionary 把這個字單獨列為另一條來源：取名自美國女權運動者 Amelia Bloomer（1818–1894），她推廣過這種服裝。所以它和 bloom（開花）那一支沒有血緣關係，只是剛好長得一樣。
Wiktionary, "bloomer" (etymology 3)
bloomer · embarrassing slip
nOne way to hold this word: something that opens up, in its own time, where people can see it. A flower does it on a stem; a person does it years after everyone else; a does it in the oven, rising and splitting open; and a mistake does it in front of a room. The timing and the visibility are what the uses share — not a claim about how one grew out of another.
From the word’s history
Wiktionary files these uses under bloom + -er, the ending that names the thing or person that does something. It does not trace how the blunder or the loaf reached that root, so the links drawn above are teaching aids, not history.
Wiktionary 把這幾個意思放在同一個來源底下：bloom（開花）加 -er（做某事的人或東西）。不過它沒有說明「出糗」和「麵包」是怎麼走到這個字根的。所以上面那條線只能當作幫助記憶的想法，不能當成歷史證據。
Wiktionary, "bloomer" (etymology 2)
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