drawl
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Verb
drawled, past tense; drawls, 3rd person singular present; drawling, present participle; drawled, past participle;
/drôl/,
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drawled, past tense; drawls, 3rd person singular present; drawling, present participle; drawled, past participle;
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Speak in a slow, lazy way with prolonged vowel sounds
- - “Suits me fine,” he drawled
Noun
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A slow, lazy way of speaking or an accent with unusually prolonged vowel sounds
- - a Texas drawl
Web Definitions:
- a slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels
- lengthen and slow down or draw out; "drawl one's vowels"
- A drawl is a perceived feature of some varieties of spoken English, and generally indicates longer vowel sounds and/or diphthongs. ...
- a way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together. Characteristic of some southern US accents, as well as Scots; to speak with a drawl
- (drawling) The act of speaking with a drawl
- slow way of speaking
- to speak slowly with long drawn out vowels