drawl
To drag on slowly and heavilyTo drag on slowly and heavily; to dawdle or while away time indolently.
» American southerners speak in a drawling voice.
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4 languagesExamples
2 sentencesAmerican southerners speak in a drawling voice.
He spoke with a typical Texan drawl.
ruОн говорил с типично техасской медлительностью. — odexed
Meaning
4 senses(intransitive)To speak with a slow, spiritless utterance, as from affectation, laziness, or lack of interest.
gedehnt sprechen, schleppend sprechen
розтягувати словаroztjahuvaty slova, протягнутиprotjahnuty
(transitive)To drag on slowly and heavily; to dawdle or while 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; to move in a dull, slow, lazy manner.
- lengthen and slow down or draw out
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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Forms
drawls, drawling, drawled, drawledTenses
drawl · drawled · will drawl · have drawledWord family
3 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.