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Drawl
Definitions
- 1 A way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together, characteristic of some Southern US accents, as well as Broad Australian, Broad New Zealand, and Scots.
- 2 a slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels wordnet
- 1 To drag on slowly and heavily; to dawdle or while away time indolently. transitive
- 2 lengthen and slow down or draw out wordnet
- 3 To utter or pronounce in a dull, spiritless tone, as if by dragging out the utterance. transitive
- 4 To move slowly and heavily; to move in a dull, slow, lazy manner. intransitive
"Tush, tush, Tarleton, Kemp, nor Singer, nor all the litter of Fooles that now come drawling behinde them, neuer plaid the Clownes more naturally then the arrantest Sot of you all, shall, if hee will but boyle my Instructions in his brainepan."
- 5 To speak with a slow, spiritless utterance, as from affectation, laziness, or lack of interest. intransitive
"talk sometimes a pestilence , and sometimes a hero , mostly in a drawling and dreaming way about it"
Etymology
From a modern frequentative form of draw, equivalent to draw + -le. Compare draggle. Compare also Dutch dralen (“to drag out, delay, linger, tarry, dawdle”), Old Danish dravle (“to linger, loiter”), Icelandic dralla (“to loiter, linger”).
From a modern frequentative form of draw, equivalent to draw + -le. Compare draggle. Compare also Dutch dralen (“to drag out, delay, linger, tarry, dawdle”), Old Danish dravle (“to linger, loiter”), Icelandic dralla (“to loiter, linger”).
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