From drōf +‎ -līċ. Cognate with Old High German truoblīh (“turbid”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdroːf.liːt͡ʃ/, [ˈdroːv.liːt͡ʃ]

drōflīċ

1. agitated, disturbed, irksome, sad

• Middle English: droflic, drobli, drubli, drubly
  • English: drubly
  • Scots: drublie

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “dróflíc”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.