drumlie

Sometimes we just have drumlie, dreary seasons and we do not know why ....

Foes Mary Johnston 1903

And oh! my dear Arthur, the Blue Grotto of Capri, with men swimming like magical silver images in its magical blue waters, is nothing so lovely to my mind as that drumlie pool of brown-black, veined with threads of foam, in the Findhorn, by which I stood in the pelting rain, believing that it contained a salmon.

Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters 1891

Troubled and drumlie flowed - which is evidently Lowland-Scotchy; or as: -

Celtic Literature Matthew Arnold 1855

Rees in great kindness and good-humour, but a little drumlie, I think, about _Napoleon_.

The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford Walter Scott 1801

I wrote for several hours in the forenoon, but was nervous and drumlie; also I bothered myself about geography; in short, there was trouble, as miners say when the vein of metal is interrupted.

The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford Walter Scott 1801