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出典:『Wiktionary』 (2025/02/04 04:19 UTC 版)

動詞

sloom (third-person singular simple present slooms, present participle slooming, simple past and past participle sloomed)

1. (Scotland) To sleep lightly, to doze, to nod; to be half-asleep.
   • a. 1853, Jane Ermina Locke, “Elia”, in The Recalled: In Voices of the Past, and Poems of the Ideal, James Munroe and Company, published 1854, page 193:
   • 1936, Esmond Quinterley, Ushering Interlude, The Fortune Press, page 66:
     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.
   • 2001, Gemma O'Connor, Walking on Water, Berkley Publishing Group (2003), →ISBN, page 205:
     He lay slooming half-asleep, half-awake, thinking about Tuesday afternoon.
2. To soften or rot with damp. (of plants or soil)
   • a. 1807, 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), 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; […]
   • 1824 August, “Remarks on Captian Napier's Essay on Store-Farming”, in The Farmer’s Magazine, Volume XXV, Archibald Constable and Company (publishers), page 329:
     […] no other spot over their whole pastured offered as much verdure at this time as these seemingly sloomed places.
   • c. 1854, Alexander J. Main, “Experiments with Special Manures”, in Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, W. Blackwood & Sons (1855), page 17:
     It must be explained, however, that in the latter case the “slooming” of the crop had an injurious effect on its yield; […]

参照

• Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish language (1867) [4]
• “sloom”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• Dictionary of the Scots Language, “sloom”

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