drawl

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drawl

/dɹɔːl/ UK
/dɹɔl/ US
/dɹɑl/ cot caught merger

Sounds like drool (fool–fall merger) · Rhymes with -ɔːl

Where it comes from

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”).

verb drawls · drawling · drawled

transitive To drag on slowly and heavily; to dawdle or while away time indolently.
transitive To utter or pronounce in a dull, spiritless tone, as if by dragging out the utterance.
intransitive To move slowly and heavily; to move in a dull, slow, lazy manner. 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.
intransitive 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

noun drawls

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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verb to speak with a drawl

Español	arrastrar las palabras
Deutsch	gedehnt sprechen, schleppend sprechen
Română	tărăgăna

noun way of speaking slowly

Español	habla arrastrada/arrastrante
Deutsch	gedehnte Aussprache, gedehnte Sprechweise
Italiano	strascico

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@misc{drawl_2026,
  title = {drawl},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/drawl},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}