sloomy

English

Etymology

From sloom +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /slu.mi/
• Rhymes: -uːmi

Adjective

sloomy (comparative more sloomy, superlative most sloomy)

1. (UK, dialect) sluggish; slow
   • 1929, John Collis Snaith, Cousin Beryl, page 100:

     "Besides, if you get, you'll never be able to hold it down — a sloomy gal like you."
     The applicant was only too much afraid that it must be so. She had very little confidence in herself.

   • 1934, Life and Letters and the London Mercury, volumes 11-12, page 722:

     […] we would gladly soodle a sloomy way home with a burred moon over us and the fern-owls chittering in the pingles and the holts.

   • 2008, Gregory Frost, Lord Tophet, page 115:

     He moaned and complained in a sloomy way, but was too slurry-witted to do more. With his head down, his eyes closed, he muttered her name […]

References

• “sloomy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.