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▪ I. droning, vbl. n.|ˈdrəʊnɪŋ|
[f. drone v.1 and v.2 + -ing1.]
1. Continued monotonous emission of sound, as of buzzing or humming; monotonous talk.
1704Swift Mech. Operat. Spirit ii. Wks. 1778 II. 20 Cant and droning supply the place of sense and reason. 1878H. M. Stanley Dark Cont. xviii. 507 The monotonous droning of the one-stringed guitar. 1894Froude Erasmus vii. 113 Mere sounds like the dronings of a barrel-organ.
2. Lazy, indolent inaction.
1825in Brockett N.C. Gloss.
▪ II. ˈdroning, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
That drones.
1. [f. drone v.1] Emitting a dull, monotonous sound; having a monotonous tone or utterance.
1601? Marston Pasquil & Kath. i. i. 315 Along with me then, you droning Sagbut! 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 89 Mix with tinkling Brass, the Cymbals droning Sound. 1750Gray Elegy ii, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. (1865) I. i. v. 45 The endless droning eloquence of Bishops.
2. [f. drone v.2] Lazy, indolent, inactive, listless.
1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1874) I. 186 Slouth and wretchyd Idylnes By wayes remys and dranynge neglygence. 1680Dryden Sp. Friar ii. ii, A long restive race of droning kings. 1841–4Emerson Ess., Compensation Wks. (Bohn) I. 46 The droning world.
Hence ˈdroningly adv., in a droning manner.
1887Advance (Chicago) 6 Oct. 630 If he could..read it freshly like a book, not droningly and dully like a portion of the Bible. 1892Lowell in Harper's Mag. June 78/2 That droningly dreary book the Mirror for Magistrates. |