Drawling
noun, verb
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 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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