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Booly vs Boomy - What's the difference?

booly | boomy |

As a noun booly

is (obsolete) a company of irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on their milk, like the tartars.

As an adjective boomy is

characterized by heavy bass sounds.

booly

English

Alternative forms

* boley * bolye * bouillie

Noun

(boolies)
  • (obsolete) A company of Irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on their milk, like the Tartars.
  • (obsolete) A place in the mountain pastures enclosed for the shelter of cattle or their keepers.
  • (Spenser)
    (Webster 1913)

    boomy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Characterized by heavy bass sounds.
  • * 1999 , Jon Chappell, The Recording Guitarist: A Guide for Home and Studio , 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 , 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 .
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=February 26, author=Allan Kozinn, title=In Precise Movements, a Russian Sense of Drama, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=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.}}
  • Of or pertaining to a financial boom, resources boom, baby boom, etc.
  • * 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 , Issues 2592-2600, page 72,
  • Even in boomier times, the flexibility that leasing provides has become increasingly important to companies.