Talk:sloom

RFV discussion
Is is really heavy sleeping or just slumber and is there really snoring involved?

The following quote speaks more for slumbering:


 * The squire sloomed and slept in his chair; and finally, after a cup of tea, went to bed.

There also seem to be meanings in Scottish like wilting of flowers etc.

In Dutch the word is an adjective meaning sluggish, particularly in the sense of dumb-witted. Jcwf 21:58, 27 December 2008 (UTC) According to the online Dictionary of the Scots Language the Scots meaning suggests light sleeping: A dreamy or sleepy state, a reverie, day-dream, a light sleep, slumber, “an unsettled sleep”  for noun and To sleep lightly, doze, slumber fitfully for verb. --Duncan 12:12, 28 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Clocked out References added, but no only one citation s . DCDuring TALK 17:00, 7 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Cited IMHO. I've corrected the def as Duncan MacCall says, based on this (which is by the same author as two of our cites). I didn't include a few cites that seemed uncertainly English as opposed to Scots, nor one poetic use where I think it's describing a dead person,  even though in the latter case it probably is in the right sense. I may actually add the latter at some point, just to round out the quotations a bit; but the former two probably belong in a ==Scots== section instead. —Ruakh TALK 21:55, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Looks good. The two senses don't seem to have the same etymologies. DCDuring TALK 22:26, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

RFV passed. —Ruakh TALK 19:18, 30 October 2010 (UTC)