drawl

Etymology
From a modern frequentative form of, equivalent to. Compare. Compare also 🇨🇬, Old Danish, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  To drag on slowly and heavily; to while or dawdle away time indolently.
 * 2)  To utter or pronounce in a dull, spiritless tone, as if by dragging out the utterance.
 * 3)  To move slowly and heavily; move in a dull, slow, lazy manner.
 * 4)  To speak with a slow, spiritless utterance, from affectation, laziness, or lack of interest.
 * 1)  To speak with a slow, spiritless utterance, from affectation, laziness, or lack of interest.
 * 1)  To speak with a slow, spiritless utterance, from affectation, laziness, or lack of interest.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: говоря провлечено
 * Czech: mumlat, zamumlat, mluvit pomalu
 * Dutch: lijzig spreken
 * German: gedehnt sprechen, schleppend sprechen
 * Romanian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: розтягувати слова, протягнути

Noun

 * 1) 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.

Derived terms

 * Southern drawl

Translations

 * Bulgarian: провлечен говор
 * Czech: jižanský přízvuk, pomalý styl řeči
 * German: gedehnte Aussprache, gedehnte Sprechweise
 * Italian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: razvlačenje, otezanje
 * Swedish:, släpigt tal