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

They hadna sailed a league, a league,   A league but barely three, When dismal grew his countenance,   And drumly grew his e'e.

From Ballad Book by Bates, Katherine Lee

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

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)

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

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