drawl

Drawl is defined as to speak slowly with drawn-out vowels.

(verb)

An example of drawl is the way John Wayne spoke.

The definition of a drawl is a way of speaking with draw-out vowels.

(noun)

An example of a drawl is how people in the southern United States typically speak.

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See drawl in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb, intransitive verb

to speak slowly, prolonging the vowels

Origin: prob. freq. of draw

noun

a slow manner of speech characterized by prolongation of vowels

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See drawl in American Heritage Dictionary 4

verb drawled, drawl·ing, drawls
verb, intransitive
To speak with lengthened or drawn-out vowels.
verb, transitive
To utter with lengthened or drawn-out vowels: “We-e-ell,” the clerk drawled.
noun
The speech or manner of speaking of one who drawls: a Southern drawl.

Origin:

Origin: Probably from Low German drauelen, to loiter, delay

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Related Forms:

  • drawlˈer noun

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