Drawl

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /dɹɔːl/

• US IPA: /dɹɔl/
• cot-caught IPA: /dɹɑl/
• US IPA: /dʒɹɑːw/

Origin

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").

Full definition of drawl

Verb

1. (transitive) To drag on slowly and heavily; while or dawdle away time indolently.
2. (transitive) To utter or pronounce in a dull, spiritless tone, as if by dragging out the utterance.
3. (intransitive) To move slowly and heavily; move in a dull, slow, lazy mannner.
4. (intransitive) To speak with a slow, spiritless utterance, from affectation, laziness, or lack of interest.
• LandorTheologians and moralists ... talk mostly in a drawling and dreaming way about it.

Noun

1. a way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together. Characteristic of some , as well as .