sloomy
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sloomy (comparative more sloomy, superlative most sloomy)
- (UK, dialect) sluggish; slow
- 1929, John Collis Snaith, Cousin Beryl, page 100:
- "Besides, if you get, you'll never be able to hold it down — a sloomy gal like you."
The applicant was only too much afraid that it must be so. She had very little confidence in herself.
- 1934, Life and Letters and the London Mercury, volumes 11-12, page 722:
- […] we would gladly soodle a sloomy way home with a burred moon over us and the fern-owls chittering in the pingles and the holts.
- 2008, Gregory Frost, Lord Tophet, page 115:
- He moaned and complained in a sloomy way, but was too slurry-witted to do more. With his head down, his eyes closed, he muttered her name […]
References[edit]
- “sloomy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.