Talk:sloom
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Is is really heavy sleeping or just slumber and is there really snoring involved?
The following quote speaks more for slumbering:
- The squire sloomed and slept in his chair; and finally, after a cup of tea, went to bed.[1]
There also seem to be meanings in Scottish like wilting of flowers etc.
In Dutch the word is an adjective meaning sluggish, particularly in the sense of dumb-witted. Jcwf 21:58, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
- ^ Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston, 1831-1919 "The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance"
According to the online Dictionary of the Scots Language ([1]) the Scots meaning suggests light sleeping: A dreamy or sleepy state, a reverie, day-dream, a light sleep, slumber, “an unsettled sleep” for noun and To sleep lightly, doze, slumber fitfully for verb. --Duncan 12:12, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
- Clocked out References added, but
noonly one citations. DCDuring TALK 17:00, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
- Cited IMHO. I've corrected the def as Duncan MacCall says, based on this (which is by the same author as two of our cites). I didn't include a few cites that seemed uncertainly English as opposed to Scots,[2][3] nor one poetic use where I think it's describing a dead person,[4] even though in the latter case it probably is in the right sense. I may actually add the latter at some point, just to round out the quotations a bit; but the former two probably belong in a ==Scots== section instead. —RuakhTALK 21:55, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
- Looks good. The two senses don't seem to have the same etymologies. DCDuring TALK 22:26, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
RFV passed. —RuakhTALK 19:18, 30 October 2010 (UTC)