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Definition of Sloomy
1. a. Sluggish; slow.
Definition of Sloomy
1. Adjective. (UK dialect) sluggish; slow ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sloomy
1. sleepy [adj SLOOMIER, SLOOMIEST] - See also: sleepy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sloomy
Literary usage of Sloomy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"He found complainant nearly slackened with filth. sloomy ... This herse is every
bit as sloomy in the stable as the other. ..."
2. A Glossary of Words Used in South-west Lincolnshire: (Wapentake of Graffoe) by Robert Eden George Cole (1886)
"He found complainant nearly slackened with filth. sloomy ... This herse is every
bit as sloomy in the stable as the other. ..."
3. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"... Twice twelve degrees, is call'd the Zodiack. Sylvester, The Columnes, 312.
sloomy, "sluggish; out of spirits" (note to extract). ..."
4. A Glossary of Berkshire Words and Phrases by Barzillai Lowsley, Job Lowsley (1888)
"SLIP-COAT-CHEESE, sé. a cream-cheese something like the ' thin Cottenham ' of
Cambridgeshire, but not so good. sloomy, adj. slovenly. ..."
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