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 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 S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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 Henry Van Dyke
There was a gusty wind sweeping drumly clouds athwart the sky—faintly illuminated by the dying moon; now a few stars appeared momentarily, then a swathe of darkness enveloped all.
From Border Ghost Stories by Howard Pease
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 Allan Stewart
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 O. Douglas
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