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DRAWL
drawl
(noun) a slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels
drawl
(verb) lengthen and slow down or draw out; “drawl one’s vowels”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
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.
Noun
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.
Source: Wiktionary
Drawl, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Drawled; p. pr. & vb. n. Drawling.] Etym: [Prob. fr. draw: cf. D. dralen to linger, tarry, Icel. dralla to loiter. See Draw, and cf. Draggle.]
Definition: To utter in a slow, lengthened tone.
Drawl, v. i.
Definition: 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. Landor.
Drawl, n.
Definition: A lengthened, slow monotonous utterance.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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