different between loam vs loamy

English

Etymology

From Middle English lome, lame, lam, from Old English l?m (“clay, mud, mire, earth”), from Proto-Germanic *laimaz, *laimô (“clay”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley- (“mud, slime; to slip, slide”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Leem (“loam”), West Frisian liem (“loam”), Dutch leem (“loam”), German Lehm (“loam”). Related also to lime.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l??m/
• Rhymes: -??m
• (US) IPA^(key): /lo?m/

Noun

loam (countable and uncountable, plural loams)

1. (geology) A type of soil; an earthy mixture of sand, silt and clay, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due.
   • 1602 : William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act V scene 1

     Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander

     returneth to dust, the dust is earth, of earth we make

     loam, and of why that loam whereto he was converted

     might they not stop a beer-barrel?

2. (metalworking) A mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making moulds for large castings, often without a pattern.

Derived terms

• loamy

Translations

Verb

loam (third-person singular simple present loams, present participle loaming, simple past and past participle loamed)

1. To cover, smear, or fill with loam.

Translations

Derived terms

• loamer

Adjective

loam (not comparable)

1. Made of loam; consisting of loam.

Further reading

• loam on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• AMLO, LMAO, Malo, lmao, loma, malo, mola

English

Etymology

loam +? -y

Adjective

loamy (comparative loamier, superlative loamiest)

1. Consisting of loam; partaking of the nature of loam; resembling loam.
   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4

     Yet there was no time to be lost if I was ever to get out alive, and so I groped with my hands against the side of the grave until I made out the bottom edge of the slab, and then fell to grubbing beneath it with my fingers. But the earth, which the day before had looked light and loamy to the eye, was stiff and hard enough when one came to tackle it with naked hands, and in an hour's time I had done little more than further weary myself and bruise my fingers.

Translations

Anagrams

• Maloy, amylo-