drumly
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of drumly
1505–15; nasalized variant of Middle English drublie, droblie, Old English drōflīc, equivalent to drōf turbid, troubled (cognate with German trüb ) + -līc -ly
Example Sentences
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It was a drumly outlook for one whose chief equipment was honesty of purpose, with, I am afraid, little of the arts of human diplomacy.
From The Black Colonel by Milne, James
This night ye are a drumly river; But over thee we'll build a brig, That ye nae mair true love may sever.
From The Book of Old English Ballads by Mabie, Hamilton Wright
“O boatman, boatman, put off your boat!Put off your boat for gowden monie!I cross the drumly stream the night,Or never mair I see my honey.”
From A Collection of Ballads by Lang, Andrew
The last verse is this: 'O wae betide thee, Annan Water, I vow thou art a drumly river; But over thee I'll build a brig, That thou true love no more may sever.'
From The Setons by Douglas, O.
It was brown and drumly with a wrack of twigs and leaves, snatched from the low branches of the hazels and alders which fringed its banks.
From The Suprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion With Those of General Napoleon Smith by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
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