Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Dull; slow; inactive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Prov. Eng. Sluggish; slow.
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- adjective UK, dialect
sluggish ;slow
Etymologies
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sloom + -y?
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Examples
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No childhood is complete until it has watched their sloomy and impassive faces munching against the glass, and seen the gradual egress (as the encyclopædia pedantically puts it) of their tender limbs, the growing froggishness of their demeanour.
Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned Christopher Morley 1923
she commented on the word sloomy
Lazy, dull, sleepy~
July 11, 2008
avivamagnolia commented on the word sloomy
~ Lethargic, sleepy, slumbering, sleeping deeply
~sloom, a deep sleep
~ Sloom evolved into the English slumber
~ Sloom is from the Flemish sluimeren, to sleep; sluimerig, sleepy.
January 18, 2009