Meanings
adjectivedroumy (comparative more droumy, superlative most droumy)
comparative more droumy · superlative most droumy
- obsoletechoppy, muddy, or dreary
droumy days are full of fog again
1875, Joshua Hatton, Village Verses2 more examples
...or that other protestation of L. Catilina, to set on fire and trouble states, to the end to fish in droumy waters,...
1605, Francis Bacon, chapter XXIII, in Advancement of Learning, Second Book, page 45His presence bears a droumy spell
1903, Mary Buckner Spiers, The Giant of the Blue Ridge: And Other Poems, Waters of the Rappahannock River
Origin
Compare Scots drum, dram (“melancholy”), Icelandic prumr (“a moper”), Welsh trwm (“heavy, sad”).
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droumy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/droumy
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