droumy

Compare Scots drum, dram (“melancholy”), Icelandic prumr (“a moper”), Welsh trwm (“heavy, sad”).

droumy (comparative more droumy, superlative most droumy)

1. (obsolete) choppy, muddy, or dreary
   • 1605, Francis Bacon, chapter XXIII, in Advancement of Learning, Second Book, page 45:

     ...or that other protestation of L. Catilina, to set on fire and trouble states, to the end to fish in droumy waters,...

   • 1875, Joshua Hatton, Village Verses:

     droumy days are full of fog again

   • 1903, Mary Buckner Spiers, The Giant of the Blue Ridge: And Other Poems‎^[1], Waters of the Rappahannock River:

     His presence bears a droumy spell

• “droumy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.