Broomie vs. Broom — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Broomie and Broom
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Broomie
(informal) A person who wields a broom.
Broom
A broom (also known in some forms as a broomstick) is a cleaning tool consisting of usually stiff fibers (often made of materials such as plastic, hair, or corn husks) attached to, and roughly parallel to, a cylindrical handle, the broomstick. It is thus a variety of brush with a long handle.
Broomie
A person who sweeps the floor and possibly does other menial tasks in a shearing shed.
Broom
An implement used for sweeping, typically consisting of a bunch of stiff synthetic fibers or broomcorn stalks, or formerly twigs or straw, bound together and attached to a handle.
Broomie
A broomtail (unbroken range mare).
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Broom
Any of various European and North African shrubs of the genus Cytisus in the pea family, especially C. scoparius, having mostly compound leaves with three leaflets and showy, usually bright yellow flowers.
Broom
Any of several similar or related shrubs, especially in the genera Genista and Spartium.
Broom
To sweep with a broom.
Broom
(countable) A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping.
Broom
An implement with which players sweep the ice to make a stone travel further and curl less; a sweeper.
Broom
Any of several yellow-flowered shrubs of the family Fabaceae, in the tribe Genisteae, including genera Cytisus, Genista, and Spartium, with long, thin branches and small or few leaves.
Broom
A shotgun, because it is more or less long, held similarly to a besom and “cleans” what is in front.
Broom
To sweep with a broom.
Broom
(roofing) 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.
Broom
(metaphor) to get rid of someone, like firing an employee or breaking up with a girlfriend, to sweep another out of one's life
Broom
A plant having twigs suitable for making brooms to sweep with when bound together; esp., the Cytisus scoparius of Western Europe, which is a low shrub with long, straight, green, angular branches, minute leaves, and large yellow flowers.
No gypsy cowered o'er fires of furze and broom.
Broom
An implement for sweeping floors, etc., commonly made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle; - so called because originally made of the twigs of the broom.
Broom
See Bream.
Broom
A cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle
Broom
Any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers
Broom
Common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere
Broom
Sweep with a broom or as if with a broom;
Sweep the crumbs off the table
Sweep under the bed
Broom
Finish with a broom
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