DRAWL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does drawl mean? 

• DRAWL (noun)
  The noun DRAWL has 1 sense:

1. a slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels

  Familiarity information: DRAWL used as a noun is very rare.

• DRAWL (verb)
  The verb DRAWL has 1 sense:

1. lengthen and slow down or draw out

  Familiarity information: DRAWL used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRAWL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("drawl" is a kind of...):

accent; speech pattern (distinctive manner of oral expression)

Derivation:

drawl (lengthen and slow down or draw out)

• DRAWL (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they drawl    ... he / she / it drawls   
Past simple: drawled   
Past participle: drawled   
-ing form: drawling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lengthen and slow down or draw out

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

drawl one's vowels

Hypernyms (to "drawl" is one way to...):

articulate; enounce; enunciate; pronounce; say; sound out (speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

drawl (a slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels)

drawler (someone who speaks with a drawl)

 Context examples 

“Little enough, good father, little enough,” said the novice, speaking English with a broad West Saxon drawl.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I’ve sent in my papers,” drawled the other.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Just one hint to you, Lestrade, drawled Holmes before his rival vanished; I will tell you the true solution of the matter.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Wasn’t it—er—Crusoe who rubbed sticks together?” she drawled.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

"Well, stranger," the other drawled irritatingly, "I don't mind telling you that's something I ain't worked out for myself. I don't know how to turn the trick."

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I should not settle tamely down into being the forbearing party; I should assign you your share of labour, and compel you to accomplish it, or else it should be left undone: I should insist, also, on your keeping some of those drawling, half-insincere complaints hushed in your own breast.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“I do not marvel at it,” cried the Cambrig scholar, speaking in the high drawling voice which was common among his class.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His manner was languid, his voice drawling, and while he eclipsed my uncle in the extravagance of his speech, he had not the air of manliness and decision which underlay all my kinsman’s affectations.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yaas, to be sure I do, drawled Lord Ingram; and the poor old stick used to cry out 'Oh you villains childs!'—and then we sermonised her on the presumption of attempting to teach such clever blades as we were, when she was herself so ignorant.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Georgiana added to her How d'ye do? several commonplaces about my journey, the weather, and so on, uttered in rather a drawling tone: and accompanied by sundry side-glances that measured me from head to foot—now traversing the folds of my drab merino pelisse, and now lingering on the plain trimming of my cottage bonnet.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)