slombry

English

Adjective

slombry

1. Obsolete form of slumbery.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     So long they sought , till they arrived were
     In that same shady covert whereas lay
     Faire Crysogone in slombry traunce

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:sleepy

Anagrams

• bromyls

Middle English

Adjective

slombry

1. sleepy
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     thanne wexeth he slough and slombry and soone wol be wrooth […]

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