slumbery

slumbery

English

Alternative forms

• slombry

Etymology

From slumber +‎ -y.

Adjective

slumbery (comparative more slumbery, superlative most slumbery)

1. (obsolete) Sleepy, slumberous.
   • c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Parson's Tale’, Canterbury Tales, Ellesmere ms.:

     thanne wexeth he slough and slombry and soone wol be wrooth […]

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.6:

     In that same covert whereas lay / Faire Chrysogone in slombry traunce whilere […]

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