droumy

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English

Etymology

Compare Scots drum, dram (“melancholy”), Icelandic prumr (“a moper”), Welsh trwm (“heavy, sad”).

Adjective

droumy (comparative more droumy, superlative most droumy)

  1. (obsolete) troubled; muddy
    • 1605, Francis Bacon, chapter XXIII, in Advancement of Learning, Second Book, page 45:
      ...or that other protestation of L. Catilina, to set on fire and trouble states, to the end to fish in droumy waters,...

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “droumy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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