drumlie

Scots edit

drumlie (comparative mair drumlie, superlative maist drumlie)

Of weather: cloudy, gloomy.
Of flowing water: muddy, troubled.
- 1791, Robert Burns, “Ye Banks, and Braes, and Streams around. Air.—Katharine Ogie.”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, volume I (in English), Kilmarnock, Scotland: […] John Wilson, published 1886, →OCLC; reprinted Kilmarnock, Scotland: […] James M‘Kie, 1867, →OCLC, page 77:
  Ye banks, and braes, and ſtreams around / The caſtle of Montgomery, / Green be your woods, and fair your flowers, / Your waters never drumlie!