Booly vs Boomy - What's the difference?
booly | boomy |
(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.
Characterized by heavy bass sounds.
* 1999 , Jon Chappell, The Recording Guitarist: A Guide for Home and Studio ,
* 2007 , Gary Gottlieb, Shaping Sound in the Studio and Beyond: Audio Aesthetics and Technology ,
* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=February 26, author=Allan Kozinn, title=In Precise Movements, a Russian Sense of Drama, work=New York Times
, 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 ,
* 1903 , Mining Magazine: An International Monthly Review of Current Progress in Mining and Metallurgy , Volume 7,
* 1979 , Business Week , Issues 2592-2600,
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 * bouillieNoun
(boolies)- (Spenser)
boomy
English
Adjective
(er)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.
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- 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 .
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- Tacoma was literally staggering under a boom of the boomiest . I do not quite remember what her natural resources were supposed to be,.
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- A larger amount of capital is seeking investment than in the boomiest of boom times, yet there is no boom now.
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- Even in boomier times, the flexibility that leasing provides has become increasingly important to companies.