Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Like a drone; dronish; sluggish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Like a drone; sluggish; lazy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of a sound
Dronelike .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"drony;" but among his Illustrations attached to the verb "to drone," there are two from Dryden, each, it may be seen, using the word
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It had a rather drony asthetic which doesn't seem to have been replicated since.
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He has that really low drony voice, plus he talks like he doesnt know what he doesnt know what he is talking about.
sierrazen Diary Entry sierrazen 2006
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The songs are long and drony, perfect for Smith to spit both his astute observations and bizarre non-sequiturs over.
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Played four or so pieces over roughly an hour, mostly drony, lots of E-Bow.
Phasmatodea AAR badger 2005
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Interesting experiments including a mathy piece to begin with, a slow drony ambient piece, and an instrumental confrontation of Godzilla versus Mothra - I took the role of Mothra, doing wingbeats and laser blasts.
post-Nevermore and badgerhaus recap badger 2005
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Played a solid 90 minutes in three sets, layered and drony and tribal all at the same time.
[local] show: Fukadugalon, 26 May 2005, Raleigh NC USA badger 2005
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Very drony day, lots of electronic overprocessed textured layers.
weekend catchup badger 2005
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Instrumental improvisational looping harsh drony ambient music.
dumdumdumdumdumdumDUMdum badger 2005
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I never doubted as to the true reading of the third line of the second stanza of Gray's Elegy, but merely remarked that in one place the penultimate word was printed _drony_, and other authorities _droning_.
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