drawl
verbEtymology
From 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”).
Definitions
To drag on slowly and heavily
To drag on slowly and heavily; to dawdle or while away time indolently.
To utter or pronounce in a dull, spiritless tone, as if by dragging out the utterance.
To move slowly and heavily
To move slowly and heavily; to move in a dull, slow, lazy manner.
- Looke what leysure the old bearded Bawd takes / How softly she goes / How one leg comes drawling after another / Now she has her money, her armes are broken.
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To speak with a slow, spiritless utterance, as from affectation, laziness, or lack of…
To speak with a slow, spiritless utterance, as from affectation, laziness, or lack of interest.
- talk sometimes a pestilence , and sometimes a hero , mostly in a drawling and dreaming way about it
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.
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Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for drawl. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA