solemncholy
adjEtymology Blend of solemn + melancholy.
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Dialectal, Humorous, Nonstandard solemn; serious
- On the night of the 4th of February , Ailie wrote to her cousin elect— “This is the maddest, merriest Sunday which any one of these, your five solemncholy English friends have ever spent. […]1879, Kate Ross, A Sicilian Legacy, volume 2, page 230:
- I wouldna deny it in front of such a number of sharp-eyed solemncholy gentlemen. I flung the stone that dropped Mr Crawford.1999, Dorothy Dunnett, Checkmate: