sloom
/sluːm/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To sleep lightly, to doze, to nod; to be half-asleep.
Example Sentences
- "The squire sloomed and slept in his chair; and finally, after a cup of tea, went to bed."
- "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!"
- "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."
- "He lay slooming half-asleep, half-awake, thinking about Tuesday afternoon."
- "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; […]"
Etymology
From Middle English *sloume, sloumbe, slume, from Old English sluma (“sleep, slumber”), from Proto-Germanic *slūm- (“to be slack, loose, or limp”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lew- (“limp, flabby”). Compare slumber and Dutch sloom.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
slooms (plural)
sloum (alternative)
slooms (present, singular)
slooming (participle, present)
sloomed (participle, past)
sloomed (past)
sleam (alternative)