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'*; and in form sloamy Yks. Chs.'^ [slou'mi, slS'mi.] Of straw : soft and weak as when the corn has been laid while growing.
Joseph Wright, English Dialect Dictionary (1898–1905)
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(UK, dialect) sluggish; slow.
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