Slumber vs Sloom - What's the difference?
slumber | sloom |
A very light state of sleep, almost awake.
To be in a very light state of sleep, almost awake.
* Bible, Psalms cxxi. 4
To be inactive or negligent.
(obsolete) To lay to sleep.
(obsolete) To stun; to stupefy.
(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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As nouns the difference between slumber and sloom
is that slumber is a very light state of sleep, almost awake while sloom is a gentle sleep; slumber.As verbs the difference between slumber and sloom
is that slumber is to be in a very light state of sleep, almost awake while sloom is (scotland|obsolete) to sleep lightly, to doze, to nod; to be half-asleep.slumber
English
(wikipedia slumber)Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- He at last fell into a slumber , and thence into a fast sleep, which detained him in that place until it was almost night. — Bunyan.
- Fast asleep? It is no matter; / Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber . — Shakespeare.
- Rest to my soul, and slumber to my eyes. — Dryden.
Derived terms
* (l)Verb
(en verb)- He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
- (Wotton)
- (Spenser)
See also
* catnap * doze * nap * shuteye * slumber partyAnagrams
*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”