Drawling

noun, verb

noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of speaking with a drawl.

    "[…] if I yawn over your imperfect sentences, your repeated phrases, your false pathos, your drawlings and denouncingsyour humming and hawing, your oh-ing and ah-ing, your black gloves and your white handkerchief."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of drawl form-of, gerund, participle, present

Example

More examples

"American southerners speak in a drawling voice."

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