sloomyadj.
dialect.
1.
a. Of grain: Not properly filled.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [adjective] > shrivelled, grooved, or underdeveloped
flintered?1523
sloomya1642
guttery1745
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [adjective] > killed > flattened through overgrowth
sloomya1642
lodged1733
sloomed1824
a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 56 The stemme will bee stronge and steare, and the barley it selfe sloumie and not pubble.
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Sloomy corn, a phrase used with respect to grain, when it is not well filled.
b. Of corn, etc.: Laid or lodged through being soft and heavy; beginning to rot.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by good growth > [adjective] > excessive in growth or too vigorous > heavy and beginning to rot
sloomed1824
sloomy1825
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl.
1877–86 in Cheshire and Cumberld. glossaries.
2. Sluggish, dull, spiritless. Also as adv.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [adjective]
unlustyc1225
sleepyc1384
phlegmatica1400
listlessc1440
owlist1440
unlisty1440
phlegmyc1450
sweyntc1450
supine1554
resty1565
unactive1591
sleepy-headed1600
log-like1602
inertious1611
stupefied?1611
lethargic1612
sedentary1625
torpent1647
torpid1656
torpulent1657
softly1664
inert1774
vegetative1789
spiritless1798
unenergetic1805
sloomy1820
slow-going1825
inenergetic1826
comatose1828
moony1847
mooning1864
torpid-minded1909
narcoleptic1965
vegged1986
the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [adverb]
unlustilyc1390
supinely1605
supine1615
lethargically1633
unlustly1649
phlegmatically1673
phlegmaticly1673
listlessly1693
davielya1796
sloomy1820
torpidly1820
moonily1887
mooningly1893
the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious
dreicha1300
alangec1330
joylessa1400
tedious1412
wearifulc1454
weary1465
laboriousa1475
tiresome?a1513
irksome1513
wearisome1530
woodena1566
irkful1570
flat1573
leaden1593
barren1600
soaked1600
unlively1608
dulla1616
irking1629
drearisome1633
drear1645
plumbous1651
fatigable1656
dreary1667
uncurious1685
unenlivened1692
blank1726
disinteresting1737
stupid1748
stagnant1749
trist?1756
vegetable1757
borish1766
uninteresting1769
unenlivening1774
oorie1787
wearying1796
subjectless1803
yawny1805
wearing1811
stuffy1813
sloomy1820
tediousome1823
arid1827
lacklustrous1834
boring1839
featureless1839
slow1840
sodden1853
ennuying1858
dusty1860
cabbagy1861
old1864
mouldy1876
yawnful1878
drab1880
dehydrated1884
interestless1886
jay1889
boresome1895
stodgy1895
stuffy1895
yawnsome1900
sludgy1901
draggy1922
blah1937
nowhere1940
drack1945
stupefactive1970
schleppy1978
wack1986
the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adverb] > in wearisome or tedious manner
irksomely1549
tediously1557
leaden-like1574
drearily1579
dully1600
Welshly1629
unlively1641
woodenly1653
stupidly1723
uninterestingly1793
soporifically1807
sloomy1820
wearyingly1829
boringly1840
tiresomely1847
aridly1883
drably1891
stuffily1894
stodgily1904
yawnsomely1908
yawnfully1914
1820 J. Clare Poems (ed. 3) 127 O'er pathless plains, at early hours, The sleepy rustic sloomy goes.
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 103 They then, like school-boys that at truant play, In sloomy fear lounge on their homeward way.
1851 T. Sternberg Dial. & Folk-lore Northants. Sloomy, dull and gloomy.
1880 Ld. Tennyson Northern Cobbler vii An' Sally wur sloomy an' draggle tääil'd.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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