Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A gentle sleep; slumber.
- To slumber; waste; decay.
- To become weak or flaccid, as plants and flowers touched by frost.
- noun See
sloam .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Prov. Eng. Slumber.
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- verb Scotland, obsolete To
sleep lightly, todoze , tonod ; to be half-asleep. - verb To
soften orrot withdamp .
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whichbe commented on the word sloom
To sleep very heavily.
August 2, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word sloom
Aw, man, this is the best.
August 2, 2008
reesetee commented on the word sloom
Sounds like another gound word to me. :-)
August 2, 2008
avivamagnolia commented on the word sloom
~ A deep sleep
~ Evolved into the English slumber
~ From the Flemish sluimeren, to sleep; sluimerig, sleepy.
~ Sloomy, lethargic
January 18, 2009
groovy_shamrock commented on the word sloom
I love this word. Its sound alone suggests the bottomless depths of that kind of deep sleep.
August 7, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word sloom
It does. I wish I had some sloom last night. Instead I had an interminably boring dream in which I was hanging out with certain Supreme Court justices.
WTF?
August 7, 2009
reesetee commented on the word sloom
Well, I hope you gave them a good talking to.
August 10, 2009