ˈsloomy, a. dial.
Also 7 sloumie, 9 slowmy, sloamy, slaumy.
[f. sloom v.2]
1. a. Of grain: Not properly filled.
| 1641 Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 54 The stemme will bee stronge and steare, and the barley itselfe sloumie and not pubble. 1808 Jamieson, 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.
| 1825 in Jamieson Suppl. 1877–86 in Cheshire and Cumberld. glossaries. |
2. Sluggish, dull, spiritless. Also as adv.
| 1820 Clare Poems (ed. 3) 127 O'er pathless plains, at early hours, The sleepy rustic sloomy goes. 1821 ― Vill. Minstr. II. 103 They then, like school-boys that at truant play, In sloomy fear lounge on their homeward way. 1851 Sternberg Northampt. Dial., Sloomy, dull and gloomy. 1880 Tennyson Northern Cobbler vii, An' Sally wur sloomy an' draggle tääil'd. |