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Noun [English]

IPA: /dɹɔːl/ [UK], /dɹɔl/ [US], /dɹɑl/ [cot-caught-merger], /d͡ʒɹɑːw/ (note: US, paragon) Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-drawl.wav Forms: drawls [plural]
Rhymes: -ɔːl Etymology: 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”). Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|draw|le}} draw + -le, {{cog|nl|dralen||to drag out, delay, linger, tarry, dawdle}} Dutch dralen (“to drag out, delay, linger, tarry, dawdle”), {{cog|is|dralla||to loiter, linger}} Icelandic dralla (“to loiter, linger”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} drawl (plural drawls)
  1. 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. Categories (topical): Talking Derived forms: Southern drawl Related terms: brogue, lilt, lisp, twang Translations (way of speaking slowly): провлечен говор (provlečen govor) (Bulgarian), jižanský přízvuk (Czech), pomalý styl řeči (Czech), gedehnte Aussprache [feminine] (German), gedehnte Sprechweise [feminine] (German), strascico [masculine] (Italian), razvlačenje (Serbo-Croatian), otezanje (Serbo-Croatian), sludder (Swedish), släpigt tal (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-drawl-en-noun-qQFGpoj3 Disambiguation of Talking: 27 20 22 4 27 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 19 32 20 2 27 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 21 30 21 3 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 27 27 20 3 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 31 27 18 3 21 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 27 29 19 4 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 30 28 18 3 21 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 30 28 18 3 21 Disambiguation of Terms with Ukrainian translations: 29 31 17 3 20

Verb [English]

IPA: /dɹɔːl/ [UK], /dɹɔl/ [US], /dɹɑl/ [cot-caught-merger], /d͡ʒɹɑːw/ (note: US, paragon) Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-drawl.wav Forms: drawls [present, singular, third-person], drawling [participle, present], drawled [participle, past], drawled [past]
Rhymes: -ɔːl Etymology: 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”). Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|draw|le}} draw + -le, {{cog|nl|dralen||to drag out, delay, linger, tarry, dawdle}} Dutch dralen (“to drag out, delay, linger, tarry, dawdle”), {{cog|is|dralla||to loiter, linger}} Icelandic dralla (“to loiter, linger”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} drawl (third-person singular simple present drawls, present participle drawling, simple past and past participle drawled)
  1. (transitive) To drag on slowly and heavily; to while or dawdle away time indolently. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Talking
    Sense id: en-drawl-en-verb-~YTQ5GiI Disambiguation of Talking: 27 20 22 4 27 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -le, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 19 32 20 2 27 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -le: 23 30 20 6 21 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 14 42 19 4 21 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 21 30 21 3 25 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 22 31 20 2 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 27 27 20 3 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 31 27 18 3 21 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 20 34 19 7 20 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 19 39 18 4 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 19 36 19 4 21 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 27 29 19 4 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 30 28 18 3 21 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 30 28 18 3 21 Disambiguation of Terms with Ukrainian translations: 29 31 17 3 20
  2. (transitive) To utter or pronounce in a dull, spiritless tone, as if by dragging out the utterance. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Talking
    Sense id: en-drawl-en-verb-3as6do~9 Disambiguation of Talking: 27 20 22 4 27 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 19 32 20 2 27 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 21 30 21 3 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 27 27 20 3 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 31 27 18 3 21 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 27 29 19 4 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 30 28 18 3 21 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 30 28 18 3 21 Disambiguation of Terms with Ukrainian translations: 29 31 17 3 20
  3. (intransitive) To move slowly and heavily; move in a dull, slow, lazy manner. Tags: intransitive
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  4. (intransitive) To speak with a slow, spiritless utterance, from affectation, laziness, or lack of interest. Tags: intransitive Categories (topical): Talking Translations (to speak with a drawl): говоря провлечено (govorja provlečeno) (Bulgarian), mumlat [imperfective] (Czech), zamumlat [perfective] (Czech), mluvit pomalu [imperfective] (Czech), lijzig spreken (Dutch), gedehnt sprechen (German), schleppend sprechen (German), tărăgăna (Romanian), razvlačiti (Serbo-Croatian), otezati (Serbo-Croatian), söla (Swedish), розтягувати слова (roztjahuvaty slova) (Ukrainian), протягнути (protjahnuty) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-drawl-en-verb-RshnRVjG Disambiguation of Talking: 27 20 22 4 27 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 19 32 20 2 27 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 21 30 21 3 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 27 27 20 3 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 31 27 18 3 21 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 27 29 19 4 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 30 28 18 3 21 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 30 28 18 3 21 Disambiguation of Terms with Ukrainian translations: 29 31 17 3 20 Disambiguation of 'to speak with a drawl': 0 0 0 100

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Tush, tush, Tarleton, Kemp, nor Singer, nor all the litter of Fooles that now come drawling behinde them, neuer plaid the Clownes more naturally then the arrantest Sot of you all, shall, if hee will but boyle my Instructions in his brainepan.",
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          "ref": "1631, Fernando de Rojas, The Spanish bavvd, represented in Celestina …, page 36:",
          "text": "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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          "ref": "1828, Walter Savage Landor, “Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "talk sometimes a pestilence , and sometimes a hero , mostly in a drawling and dreaming way about it",
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        "(intransitive) To speak with a slow, spiritless utterance, from affectation, laziness, or lack of interest."
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      "roman": "govorja provlečeno",
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      "sense": "to speak with a drawl",
      "word": "lijzig spreken"
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      "sense": "to speak with a drawl",
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      "sense": "to speak with a drawl",
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      "sense": "to speak with a drawl",
      "word": "söla"
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      "roman": "roztjahuvaty slova",
      "sense": "to speak with a drawl",
      "word": "розтягувати слова"
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      "word": "razvlačenje"
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      "word": "otezanje"
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      "code": "sv",
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      "sense": "way of speaking slowly",
      "word": "sludder"
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      "sense": "way of speaking slowly",
      "word": "släpigt tal"
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}

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