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Slumbery

Definition: Slumbery

Slumbery

Adjective

1. Inclined to or marked by drowsiness; "slumberous (or slumbrous) eyes"; "`slumbery' is archaic"; "the sound had a a somnolent effect".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "slumbery" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Note: Slumbery \Slum"ber*y\, adjective. Sleepy. [obsolete]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms: Slumbery

Synonyms: slumberous (adj), slumbrous (adj), somnolent (adj). (additional references)

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Expression: Slumbery

Expression using "slumbery": be slumbery. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Slumbery

Language Translations for "slumbery"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

gjumash (sleeper, sleepful, sleepyhead, slugabed). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

× ×ž× ×ž× ×™ (drowsy, sleepy, slumberous). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szendergő (slumberer, slumberous), alvó (asleep, dormant, sleeper, sleeping, slumberer, slumberous), altató (drowsy, narcotic, sedative, sleeping pill, sleeping-draught, sleeping-pill, slumberous, soporific), álomtól elnehezedett (slumberous), álomba merítő (slumberous), álomba merült (slumberous, to go off to sleep), álmosító (drowsy, sleepy, slumberous, somniferous, somnolent). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

umberyslay

   

Russian 

  

Ñонный (dozy, drowsy, heavy-headed, poppied, sleepy, slumberous, slumbrous, snoozy, somnolent). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

Ñонний (heavy-handed, morphemic, poppied, sleepy, somniferous, somnolent, soporific, yawny), дрімотний (dozy, dumb, slumberous, slumbrous). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Slumbery"

Words rhyming with "slumbery" (pronounced 'Slum"ber*y'): Aleberry, Baneberry, Barberry, Bearberry, Bilberry, Blackberry, Blaeberry, Bleaberry, Blubbery, Blueberry, Bobbery, Bogberry, Boxberry, Bunchberry, Chokeberry, Cloudberry, Cowberry, Cranberry, Deerberry, Dewberry, Fubbery, gooseberry, Hackberry, hagberry, Impuberty, jobbery, Mulberry, Oneberry, Protuberancy, Puberty, raspberry, Rheinberry, robbery, Sheepberry, shrubbery, Slabbery, Slobbery, Slubberingly, Slumberingly, snobbery, snowberry, Squawberry, strawberry, teaberry, Uberty, Umbery, Waxberry, Whinberry, Wineberry, Wolfberry. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Slumbery

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-l-m-r-s-u-y"

-1 letter: burleys, lumbers, rumbles, slumber.

-2 letters: beryls, bluesy, blueys, blumes, brumes, burley, buyers, lemurs, lumber, muleys, rebuys, rubles, rumble, rumbly, surely, umbels, umbers, umbles.

-3 letters: berms, beryl, bluer, blues, bluey, blume, blurs, brume, burls, burly, burse, buyer, byres, byrls, lemur, lubes, lures, lyres, merls, mules, muley, mures, muser, rebus, rebuy, rubes, ruble, rules, sebum.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-l-m-r-s-u-y"
 

+2 letters: berylliums, measurably, presumably.

 

+3 letters: lumberyards, subdermally.

 

+4 letters: cumbersomely, immeasurably, membranously, umbrageously.

 

+5 letters: commensurably, measurability, mensurability, troublesomely.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Slumbery


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 6C 75 6D 62 65 72 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    .-..    ..-    --    -...    .    .-.    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101100 01110101 01101101 01100010 01100101 01110010 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#108 &#117 &#109 &#98 &#101 &#114 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006C 0075 006D 0062 0065 0072 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5378877968718491

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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