droumy

English

Etymology

Compare Scots drum, dram, melancholy, Icelandic prumr a moper, Welsh trwm heavy, sad.

Adjective

droumy (comparative more droumy, superlative most droumy)

  1. (obsolete) troubled; muddy
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Last modified on 12 May 2013, at 22:20