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bolts, frotts, holks, urikuris (hurikuris), dorts, sulks”, the last two borrowed from L.Sc. and Eng. respectively. — *drumb. See drumb, vb.

drumb [dromb], vb., to emit cross (prop. hollow, drumming) sounds, to talk crossly and unwillingly, said of a peevish person; he drumbed twa’rtree [‘two or three’] words ut o’ him. Nm. *drumba. Cf. No. drumbemælt, adj., talking in a hollow voice.

drumbet [drombət], adj., peevish, that talks crossly and unwillingly, a d. body. Nm., Wests. (Sa.). drumped [dro‘mpəd]: Conn. *drumbóttr. For the etym. see drumb, vb.

drummer [dromər] and drummi [drom(m)i], sb., snipe, common snipe, = snippek (sneppek), horsgok. “drummer” sporadically in M.; “drummi”: Fo. The name is probably due to the bird’s peculiar, bleating cry. Cf. Da. “drum” in the bird’s name “rørdrum” (ardea stellaris, botaurus vulgaris), likewise from the bird’s cry; Da. (Jut.) dial. drum, sb., a hollow sound; song; booming or drumming sound, and drum, adj., hollow; booming, of sound; Eng. drum, sb.

drummer [dromər] -bee, sb., a honey-bee, bumble-bee, prop. a drone. Named after the insect’s humming sound, like “drone”. See drummer and drummi, sb.

drums [dro‘ms], sb., 1) gloomy, peevish mood; what set dee [‘you’] in sicc [‘such’] a d.? 2) gruff, peevish person. Nm., De. drumps [dro‘mps], noted down in Conn., is rather connected with drumb, sb., as a pl. form of the latter. — *drums; cf. No. drumsen, adj., languid; disinclined. The Shetl. word, in its meaning, almost assimilates to trums, sb.

drums [dro‘ms], vb., to be peevish; to sulk; what are ye drumsin aboot? Nm., De. See drums, sb.

drumset [dro‘msət], adj., sulking; peevish; morose. Nm., De. No. drum-

sen, adj., languid; disinclined (R.).

drumsket is somewhat more closely allied in meaning to the Norw. word.

drumsket [dro‘mskət] and dromsket [drȯ‘mskət], adj., out of sorts; in a gloomy, peevish mood. Du. See drumset and trumsket, adjs.

drung [droŋ], adj., troublesome; heavy: a) difficult to force onward, e.g. of a boat difficult to row: a d. boat; b) in a wider sense: fatiguing; heavy, of work: heavy d. wark [‘work’]. Fo. O.N. þrǫngr, adj., narrow; pressed, really and orig. in the same sense as Shetl. drung a, which can be observed from the verbs þryngva and þrǫngva, to push; press; to move in a certain direction by pressure; to force, etc. No. trong, adj., a) narrow; b) difficult; troublesome. For the change þ > d in Shetl. see Introd. V. (also N.Spr. VII), § 36.

drung [droŋ], vb., to draw firmly together; to "tie fast, to d. tø [‘to’]. Du. occas. (Clumlie). Most prob. to be considered as a parallel form to the verbs drang and dreng, dring, though the word may also be explained from O.N. þryngva or prǫngva, vb., to push; press — see drung, adj.

drup [drūp], vb., to stoop; bend; lean over; de wa’ [‘wall’] drups to dis [‘this’] side. O.N. drúpa, vb., to lean over; droop.

drupinsløbi [drū·pɩnslø̄·bi], sb., a person with a hanging under-lip (sleb², sløb), a peevish-looking person; grumbler. U^wg. See drup, vb., and sløbi, sb.

drupsagi, -sjagi [drup·ᶊā··gi], adj., 1) quite exhausted. 2) in a gloomy, depressed mood; sad; disheartened. 3) disagreeably rainy, of weather; a d. day, a dull, rainy day. Fe. Also trupsagi [trup·ᶊā··gi] (Fe.). The first part of the compd. is doubtless the above-mentioned drup (O.N. drúpa, vb., to droop, to hang one’s head). The second part, sagi, sjagi, may