drawl
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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”).
PronunciationEdit
- (UK) IPA(key): /dɹɔːl/
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- (US) IPA(key): /dɹɔl/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /dɹɑl/
- (Can we verify(+) this pronunciation?) (US, paragon) IPA(key): /d͡ʒɹɑːw/
- Rhymes: -ɔːl
VerbEdit
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 719445219:
- talk sometimes a pestilence , and sometimes a hero , mostly in a drawling and dreaming way about it
TranslationsEdit
to speak with a drawl
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NounEdit
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 Scots.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
way of speaking slowly
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