drumlie
Scots
Adjective
drumlie (comparative mair drumlie, superlative maist drumlie)
- Of weather: cloudy, gloomy.
- Of flowing water: muddy, troubled.
- 1786, Robert Burns, “Ye Banks, and Braes, and Streams around. Air.—Katharine Ogie.”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, volume I (in English), Kilmarnock, Scotland: Printed by John Wilson, OCLC 1086871905; reprinted Kilmarnock, Scotland: Printed […] by James M‘Kie, 1867, OCLC 892088677, page 77:
- Ye banks, and braes, and ſtreams around / The caſtle of Montgomery, / Green be your woods, and fair your flowers, / Your waters never drumlie!
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