drof

Middle English

Alternative forms

drove

Etymology

From Old English drōf, from Proto-Germanic *drōbuz (“disturbed, cloudy, troubled”).

Adjective

drof

Troubled, disturbed; afflicted by sorrow.
(of water) having sediment stirred up; murky, turbid.

Synonyms

(water): drof

Related terms

dref

Descendants

English: droff

References

“drof (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 21 June 2018.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *drōbuz (“disturbed, cloudy, troubled”).

Adjective

drōf

draffy, dreggy, dirty, troubled.

Declension

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

drōflīċ

Related terms

drēfan

Descendants

Middle English: drof, drove, dref
- English: droff

References

dróf in Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary

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