drumly
Drumly is an obsolete Scots dialectal adjective meaning turbid, muddy, or cloudy — typically used of water that is thick with sediment and no longer clear.
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Drumly is an obsolete Scots dialectal adjective meaning turbid, muddy, or cloudy — typically used of water that is thick with sediment and no longer clear. The term appears in Scottish dialect literature and historical texts, where murky river water, clouded skies, or troubled minds might all be described as drumly. Largely confined to dialect scholarship and historical texts today; Burns and other Scots poets occasionally deploy it for its expressive, thick-sounding quality.
The burn ran drumly and dark after three days of rain on the hills above.
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(obsolete, mostly, Scotland) turbid; muddy.
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