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A word with two related senses. As an adverb it means in a grum (surly or morose) manner. As a Scottish adjective it means turbid, muddy, or troubled — typically used of water or the sky. Both senses share a flavour of murkiness, whether emotional or physical.
The burn ran grumly after the overnight rain, carrying brown silt down from the hillside.
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In a grum manner.
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(chiefly, Scottish) Turbid, troubled.
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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.