drumly

English

Etymology

Compare droumy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɹʌmli/
• Rhymes: -ʌmli

Adjective

drumly (comparative drumlier or more drumly, superlative drumliest or most drumly)

1. (obsolete, chiefly Scotland) turbid; muddy
   • 1887, James Inglis, chapter 15, in Our New Zealand Cousins:

     Now we cross the Arrow, swift as its name portends; roaring and foaming deep down in its drumly channel.

   • 1853, Theodore Winthrop, chapter 3, in The Canoe and the Saddle:

     But salmon may escape the coquettish charms of the trolling-hook, may safely run the gauntlet of the parallel canoes and their howling, tamanous-cap wearers; the spear, misguided in the drumly gleam, may glance harmless from scale-armed shoulders: still other perils await them.

   • 1786, Robert Burns, “Highland Mary”, in Songs and Ballads:

     Ye banks, and braes, and streams around
     
     The castle o’ Montgomery,
     
     Green be your woods, and fair your flowers,
     
     Your waters never drumlie!

References

• “drumly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.