drumly

American  

[druhm-lee, droom-lee] / ˈdrʌm li, ˈdrʊm li /

adjective

Scot.

drumlier, drumliest

1. troubled; gloomy.

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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

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

But the weather was "dour," and the water "drumly," and every day the lumbermen sent a "drive" of ten thousand spruce logs rushing down the flooded stream.

From Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things by Van Dyke, Henry

His face did glow like the glow o' the West, When the drumly cloud had it half o'ercast; Or the struggling moon when she's sair distrest.

From Tales From Scottish Ballads by Stewart, Allan

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)

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.