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sloomy en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈslu.mi/

Etymology

From sloom + -y.

Meanings

1. (UK, dialectal) sluggish; slow
   • 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 […] 2008, Gregory Frost, Lord Tophet, page 115:
   • "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. 1929, John Collis Snaith, Cousin Beryl, page 100:
   • […] 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. 1934, Life and Letters and the London Mercury, volumes 11-12, page 722:

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