drawl
English edit
Etymology edit
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”).
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /dɹɔːl/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /dɹɔl/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /dɹɑl/
- (Can we verify(+) this pronunciation?) (US, paragon) IPA(key): /d͡ʒɹɑːw/
- Rhymes: -ɔːl
Verb edit
drawl (third-person singular simple present drawls, present participle drawling, simple past and past participle drawled)
- (transitive) To drag on slowly and heavily; to while or dawdle away time indolently.
- (transitive) To utter or pronounce in a dull, spiritless tone, as if by dragging out the utterance.
- (intransitive) To move slowly and heavily; move in a dull, slow, lazy manner.
- (intransitive) To speak with a slow, spiritless utterance, from affectation, laziness, or lack of interest.
- 1828, Walter Savage Landor, “Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
- talk sometimes a pestilence , and sometimes a hero , mostly in a drawling and dreaming way about it
Translations edit
to speak with a drawl
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Noun edit
drawl (plural drawls)
- 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.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
way of speaking slowly
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