drawling
English edit
Noun edit
drawling (plural drawlings)
- The act of speaking with a drawl.
- 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers:
- […] 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 edit
drawling
- present participle and gerund of drawl
References edit
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “drawling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)