Drawl

[drawl]

A drawl is a distinctively slow, drawn out way of talking that's especially common in the US south. A writer might describe a cowboy as speaking in a lazy drawl.

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To utter in a slow, lengthened tone.

Noun
a slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels

Verb
lengthen and slow down or draw out; "drawl one''s vowels"


v. t.
To utter in a slow, lengthened tone.

v. i.
To speak with slow and lingering utterance, from laziness, lack of spirit, affectation, etc.

n.
A lengthened, slow monotonous utterance.


Drawl

Drawl , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Drawled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Drawling.] [Prob. fr. draw: cf. D. dralen to linger, tarry, Icel. dralla to loiter. See Draw, and cf. Draggle.] To utter in a slow, lengthened tone.

Drawl

Drawl, v. i. To speak with slow and lingering utterance, from laziness, lack of spirit, affectation, etc.
Theologians and moralists . . . talk mostly in a drawling and dreaming way about it.

Drawl

Drawl, n. A lengthened, slow monotonous utterance.

To utter in a slow, lengthened tone.

To speak with slow and lingering utterance, from laziness, lack of spirit, affectation, etc.

A lengthened, slow monotonous utterance.

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