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verb-intransitive. To speak with lengthened or drawn-out vowels.

v. To utter with lengthened or drawn-out vowels: "We-e-ell,” the clerk drawled.

n. The speech or manner of speaking of one who drawls: a Southern drawl.

v. To drag on slowly and heavily; while or dawdle away time indolently.

v. To utter or pronounce in a dull, spiritless tone, as if by dragging out the utterance.

v. To move slowly and heavily; move in a dull, slow, lazy mannner.

v. To speak with a slow, spiritless utterance, from affectation, laziness, or lack of interest.

v. To speak with a drawl.

n. a way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together. Characteristic of some southern US accents, as well as Scots.

v. To utter in a slow, lengthened tone.

verb-intransitive. To speak with slow and lingering utterance, from laziness, lack of spirit, affectation, etc.

n. A lengthened, slow monotonous utterance.

n. The act of drawling; a slow, unanimated utterance.

v. lengthen and slow down or draw out

n. a slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels

"I don't know if it's his pumped up Suthin 'drawl (from being in SC), or if it's his repeated lookaways to his notes, or how the notes read ... but I thought this video segment with Chris Cooper was kind of funny (and informative)."

drawled    drawling    drawls   

articulate    enunciate    say    sound out    pronounce    enounce    speech pattern    accent   

brogue    twang    lilt    lisp   

drawled    drawling   

drag   

Ball    Fall    Gaul    Hall    Montreal    Nepal    Paul    Raul    Saul    Senegal   

intonation    twang    chuckle    cadence    purr    timbre    monotone    accent    contralto    shrug