drawl
A way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together,…A way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together, characteristic of some Southern US accents, as well as Broad Australian, Broad New Zealand, and Scots.
» American southerners speak in a drawling voice.
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1 sensesA way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together, characteristic of some Southern US accents, as well as Broad Australian, Broad New Zealand, and Scots.
gedehnte Aussprache, gedehnte Sprechweise
- a slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels
Examples
2 sentencesAmerican southerners speak in a drawling voice.
He spoke with a typical Texan drawl.
ruОн говорил с типично техасской медлительностью. — odexed
Translations
4 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
From a modern frequentative form of draw, equivalent to draw + -le. Compare draggle. CompaFrom 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”).
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