boomy

From boom +‎ -y.

• Rhymes: -uːmi

boomy (comparative boomier, superlative boomiest) (informal)

1. Characterized by heavy bass sounds.
   • 1999, Jon Chappell, The Recording Guitarist: A Guide for Home and Studio‎^[1], page 54:

     If you're miking a boomy acoustic, the proximity effect can work against you, but having it on a thin-sounding arch-top can work for you.

   • 2007, Gary Gottlieb, Shaping Sound in the Studio and Beyond: Audio Aesthetics and Technology‎^[2], page 250:

     As an airliner approaches you from a long way off, the sound is first heard as rumble, and, as it get closer and then directly overhead, the sound becomes increasingly boomier.

   • 2008 February 26, Allan Kozinn, “In Precise Movements, a Russian Sense of Drama”, in New York Times‎^[3]:

     For the third movement Mr. Safronov had Schubert’s piano sketch as a guide, but his big, boomy orchestration, with a gentle pastoral trio at its core, sounded jarring after the first two movements.

2. Of or pertaining to a financial boom, resources boom, baby boom, etc.
   • c. 1880s, Rudyard Kipling, quoted in 1992, John William Reps, The Making of Urban America: A History of City Planning in the United States, page 412,

     Tacoma was literally staggering under a boom of the boomiest. I do not quite remember what her natural resources were supposed to be, […] .

   • 1903, Mining Magazine: An International Monthly Review of Current Progress in Mining and Metallurgy, volume 7, page 132:

     A larger amount of capital is seeking investment than in the boomiest of boom times, yet there is no boom now.

   • 1979, Business Week, numbers 2592-2600, page 72:

     Even in boomier times, the flexibility that leasing provides has become increasingly important to companies.

3. That booms.
   • 1993 August 29, Tim Maroney, “BOOGA: An Introduction”, in alt.magick‎^[4] (Usenet), archived from the original on 13 December 2025:

     Pupil of Earth stinky-dome three-dimensions planet have only short time to throw off mantle of FGREPSTER before big boomy things come falling down and make three dimensions happy place again you betchum.

   • 1998 December 9, Mumthra, “Help! Big! Bird!”, in alt.foot.fat-free‎^[5] (Usenet), archived from the original on 13 December 2025:

     Annie is frightened by storm fronts and she will relentlessly twine herself between my legs whenever the barometer drops. […] "It's going away. It's okay," I say. OKAY. THANKS, says Annie. OHMYGOD! WHAT WAS THAT BOOMY THING??!? I DON'T LIKE THAT BOOMY THING. OH...YOU SURE? OKAY. THANKS.

   • 2003 May 2, Bob Dobbs, “Disneyland TR”, in alt.disney.disneyland‎^[6] (Usenet), archived from the original on 13 December 2025:

     I've seen 5000+ shells launched at many shows, - randomly launched pyro to crap like the Offspring, Green Day and Bon Jovi. […] Any schmoe can play some loud Top 40 crap and launch 20 minutes of big boomy things randomly into the sky at random angles.