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drawl [drawl] ExamplesWord Origin verb (used with or without object)
- to say or speak in a slow manner, usually prolonging the vowels.
noun
- an act or utterance of a person who drawls.
Origin of drawl 1590–1600; Dutch or Low German dralen to lingerRelated formsdrawl·er, noundrawl·ing·ly, adverbdrawl·ing·ness, noundrawl·y, adjective Related Words for drawled extend, chant, intone, prolong, drone, utter, protract, nasalize Examples from the Web for drawled Contemporary Examples of drawled
Today, it is difficult to convey—much less comprehend—that slow, drawled, hazy small-town atmosphere of mid-century Washington.
Carl Bernstein
January 20, 2009
And [then he] drawled: ‘Boys, just spend it till you waste it.’
Ana Marie Cox
December 4, 2008
CNBC host Donny Deutsch drawled, “Women want to be her and men want to mate with her.”
Piling on Palin, Hating on Hillary
Caroline Heldman
November 30, 2008
Historical Examples of drawled
Grant laid a finger upon his arm and drawled his solution of a trivial mystery.
B. M. Bower
“Oh—if you’re really going,” she drawled, and followed him outside.
B. M. Bower
“Yer right, Jim,” drawled Joseph Zachariah, lounging in the doorway.
Various
“If he’ll trail around with us for a while we may show him some of it here,” he drawled.
Ernest Poole
“I trust you aren’t thinking of making us any trouble, Tremont,” drawled Braigh.
Horace Brown Fyfe
British Dictionary definitions for drawled drawl verb
- to speak or utter (words) slowly, esp prolonging the vowel sounds
noun
- the way of speech of someone who drawls
Derived Formsdrawler, noundrawling, adjectivedrawly, adjectiveWord Origin for drawl C16: probably frequentative of draw Word Origin and History for drawled drawl v.
1590s, perhaps from Middle Dutch dralen, East Frisian draulen “to linger, delay,” apparently an intensive of the root of draw (v.). Or else a native formation along the same lines. Related: Drawled; drawling. As a noun from 1760.