adj. — Newfoundland
a purplish color of flesh, esp. of bruises or coldness.
Type: 2. Preservation — In Newfoundland English, the term bazzom describes the purplish or bluish tint of flesh as a result of coldness or bruising. Clarke (2010b: 106) labels bazzom as a word of southwest English origin as a result of 18th and 19th century immigration from southwest counties of England (2010b: 105). The term bazzom likely derives from the hue of a flower, at one point being "applied primarily to the flower of heather, and secondarily to anything having a colour more or less resembling that of the heather bloom" (Pengelly 1875: 439). As seen in the 1994 quotation, the term is rare today in Newfoundland, which explains the lack of written attestations and the re-listing of oral attestations from DNE (all dated to 1982 by default).
See also DNE, s.v. "bazzom".