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droumy

droumy adjective: choppy, muddy, or dreary.

Adjective

droumy (comparative more droumy, superlative most droumy)

  1. (obsolete) choppy, muddy, or dreary
    • ...or that other protestation of L. Catilina, to set on fire and trouble states, to the end to fish in droumy waters,...1605, Francis Bacon, chapter XXIII, in Advancement of Learning, Second Book, page 45
    • droumy days are full of fog again1875, Joshua Hatton, Village Verses

Forms of droumy

comparativemore droumy
superlativemost droumy

Origin of droumy

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

Questions about droumy

What does droumy mean?
Droumy means choppy, muddy, or dreary.
What part of speech is droumy?
Droumy is an adjective.

Words near droumy in the dictionary

  1. Drouin
  2. Drouin East
  3. Drouin South
  4. Drouin West
  5. Drouins
  6. droumy
  7. drouth
  8. drouthier
  9. drouthiest
  10. drouthiness
  11. drouths

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