“sloomy”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

sloomy

释义

ˈsloomy, a. dial.
Also 7 sloumie, 9 slowmy, sloamy, slaumy.
[f. sloom v.²]
1. a. Of grain: Not properly filled.
1641Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 54 The stemme will bee stronge and steare, and the barley itselfe sloumie and not pubble.1808Jamieson, Sloomy corn, a phrase used with respect to grain, when it is not well filled.
b. Of corn, etc.: Laid or lodged through being soft and heavy; beginning to rot.
1825in Jamieson Suppl.1877–86in Cheshire and Cumberld. glossaries.
2. Sluggish, dull, spiritless. Also as adv.
1820Clare Poems (ed. 3) 127 O'er pathless plains, at early hours, The sleepy rustic sloomy goes.1821― Vill. Minstr. II. 103 They then, like school-boys that at truant play, In sloomy fear lounge on their homeward way.1851Sternberg Northampt. Dial., Sloomy, dull and gloomy.1880Tennyson Northern Cobbler vii, An' Sally wur sloomy an' draggle tääil'd.

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