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Drumly
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Drumly
DRUMLY
,Adj.
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drumly
drumly
English
Adjective
drumly (comparative more drumly, superlative most drumly)
- (obsolete, dialect, Britain, Scotland) turbid; muddy
- 1786, Robert Burns, "Highland Mary", Songs and Ballads
- Ye banks, and braes, and streams around
- The castle o’ Montgomery,
- Green be your woods, and fair your flowers,
- Your waters never drumlie!
- Ye banks, and braes, and streams around
- (Can we find and add a quotation of John Wodroephe (1623) to this entry?)
- 1786, Robert Burns, "Highland Mary", Songs and Ballads