drumly

English

Etymology

Compare droumy.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

drumly (comparative more drumly, superlative most drumly)

1. (obsolete, dialect, UK, 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!

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “drumly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)