drawling (plural drawlings)
The act of speaking with a drawl.
drawling
present participle of drawl
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Source: Wiktionary
Drawl"ing, n.
Definition: The act of speaking with a drawl; a drawl.
– Drawl"ing*ly, adv. Bacon.
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
9 June 2025
(noun) one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
