sloomy
adj/ˈslu.mi/
Etymology From sloom + -y.
- "Besides, if you get, you'll never be able to hold it down — a sloomy gal like you." The applicant was only too much afraid that it must be so. She had very little confidence in herself.1929, John Collis Snaith, Cousin Beryl, page 100:
- […] we would gladly soodle a sloomy way home with a burred moon over us and the fern-owls chittering in the pingles and the holts.1934, Life and Letters and the London Mercury, volumes 11-12, page 722:
1 more example
- He moaned and complained in a sloomy way, but was too slurry-witted to do more. With his head down, his eyes closed, he muttered her name […]2008, Gregory Frost, Lord Tophet, page 115: