Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Somewhat damp; moist: as, “dampy shade,”
- Dejected; sorrowful: as, “dampy thoughts,”
- In coal-mining, said of air when it is mixed with choke-damp to such an extent that candles will no longer burn in it.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Somewhat damp.
- adjective obsolete Dejected; gloomy; sorrowful.
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- adjective obsolete Somewhat
damp - adjective obsolete
Dejected ;gloomy ;sorrowful
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Examples
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Fragrant, though the broad neutral ground was a wilderness of weeds of dampy growth, and (so our John used to tell me) snakes!
Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood, 1912
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The disease of the body may cause disease in the soul; yet not the less trust we in the mercy of the merciful -- not the less strive we to keep feeding and trimming that spiritual lamp which is within us, even when it flickers feebly in the dampy gloom, like an earthly lamp left in a vaulted sepulchre, about to die among the dead.
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819
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I watch the smug curve in his mouth and smell the sneezy air of the dumpy, dampy, danky, dark dungeon office that Inspicorp keeps for the drops offs and pick ups of all the seeds and shit.
Bonnie: The Uninspired Muse Eddie Wright 2009
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In yonder gloomy grove out-ftretch'd he lay His lovely limbs upon the dampy clay;
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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