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Slumbery (adj) means (literary) Sleepy or half asleep, and by extension calm and unhurried.

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(literary) Sleepy or half asleep, and by extension calm and unhurried.

"“Yes, miss. He found you outside on the portico. You were wet and cold and all slumbery.” “Slumbery?” Susannah scrunched her nose at the sound of the word. “Asleep, miss. He couldn't wake you.” Colleen took Susannah's hand." — Suzanne Hoos, Only Time Will Tell (2014)

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