Sloom vs Gloom - What's the difference?
sloom | gloom |
(Scotland, obsolete) To sleep lightly, to doze, to nod; to be half-asleep.
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* Jane Ermina Locke, "Elia", in The Recalled: In Voices of the Past, and Poems of the Ideal , James Munroe and Company (1854),
* 1900 , Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, The Maid of Maiden lane , Dodd, Mead and Company,
* 1936 , Esmond Quinterley, Ushering Interlude , The Fortune Press, page 66:
* 2001 , Gemma O'Connor, Walking on Water ,
(of plants or soil) To soften or rot with damp.
* unidentified young farmer, letter to his father, printed in Edinburgh Farmers’ Magazine'' 1807, reprinted in ''The Farmer’s Register , Volume 7, Number 9 (1839 September 30),
* 1824 August, “Remarks on Captian Napier's Essay on Store-Farming”, in The Farmer’s Magazine , Volume XXV, Archibald Constable and Company (publishers),
* Alexander J. Main, “Experiments with Special Manures”, in Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland , W. Blackwood & Sons (1855),
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* Dictionary of the Scots Language, “ Darkness, dimness or obscurity.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
A melancholy, depressing or despondent atmosphere.
Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
* Burke
A drying oven used in gunpowder manufacture.
To be dark or gloomy.
* Goldsmith
* 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 189:
to look or feel sad, sullen or despondent.
* D. H. Lawrence
To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
* Walpole
* Tennyson
To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
* Tennyson
* Goldsmith
To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.
As nouns the difference between sloom and gloom
is that sloom is a gentle sleep; slumber while gloom is darkness, dimness or obscurity.As verbs the difference between sloom and gloom
is that sloom is (scotland|obsolete) to sleep lightly, to doze, to nod; to be half-asleep while gloom is to be dark or gloomy.sloom
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Compare slumber and (etyl) sloom.Alternative forms
*Derived terms
* sloomyEtymology 2
From (etyl) slumen, slummen, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
*Verb
(en verb)page 193:
- To his castle’s portal, / At the morning gloaming, / Bore they all the mortal / From the battle’s foaming, / Of the white bannered warrior knight, / Cold in his armor slooming !
page 181:
- Then the doctor was slooming and nodding, and waking up and saying a word or two, and relapsing again into semi-unconsciousness.
- The afternoon sun painted amber patterns on the Turkey red hearthrug: the only splash of colour in the dun room. Potter sloomed in the arms of the chair.
][http://www.amazon.com/Walking-Water-Gemma-OConnor/dp/0515135976Berkley Publishing Group (2003), ISBN 978-0-515-13597-8, page 205:
- He lay slooming half-asleep, half-awake, thinking about Tuesday afternoon.
page 540:
- He adds, that one hundred bolls, or fifty quarters of wheat may be thrashed in a day of eight hours, unless the grain has been sloomed or mildewed;
page 329:
- no other spot over their whole pastured offered as much verdure at this time as these seemingly sloomed places.
page 17:
- It must be explained, however, that in the latter case the “slooming ” of the crop had an injurious effect on its yield;
References
* Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish language (1867) [http://books.google.com/books?id=EXgKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA494&dq=slooming+, +slooms+, +sloomed+, +sloom&as_brr=3&ei=pu5uS5uFOIyaMqCFsI8P&cd=10sloom”
Anagrams
* * ----gloom
English
Noun
(-)- the gloom of a forest, or of midnight
- Here was a surprise, and a sad one for me, for I perceived that I had slept away a day, and that the sun was setting for another night. And yet it mattered little, for night or daytime there was no light to help me in this horrible place; and though my eyes had grown accustomed to the gloom , I could make out nothing to show me where to work.
- A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits.
Derived terms
* doom and gloom * gloomily * (l) (humorous) * gloomyVerb
(en verb)- The black gibbet glooms beside the way.
- Around all the dark forest gloomed .
- Ciss was a big, dark-complexioned, pug-faced young woman who seemed to be glooming about something.
- A bow window gloomed with limes.
- A black yew gloomed the stagnant air.
- Such a mood as that which lately gloomed your fancy.
- What sorrows gloomed that parting day.