drawl
pronunciation
How to pronounce drawl in British English:
UK [drɔ:l]
How to pronounce drawl in American English:
US [drɔl]
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- Noun:
- a slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels
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- Verb:
- lengthen and slow down or draw out
Word Origin
- 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.
Example
- 1. You can 't mistake her voice , with its strong southern drawl .
- 2. A guy with a thick southern drawl said .
- 3. He speaks with a languid drawl .
- 4. He was complaining in his montana cowboy 's drawl .
- 5. She put on her hick southern drawl she used to wind up my dad .