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Definitions of drawl in various dictionaries:
noun - a slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels
verb - lengthen and slow down or draw out
To speak with lengthened or drawn-out vowels.
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| A slow, lazy way of speaking or an accent with prolonged vowel sounds. |
| Speak in a slow, lazy way with prolonged vowel sounds. |
| speak in a slow, lazy way with prolonged vowel sounds. |
| a slow, lazy way of speaking or an accent with prolonged vowel sounds. |
| a slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels |
| lengthen and slow down or draw out |
| a slow way of speaking in which the vowel sounds are made longer and words are not separated clearly: |
| a way of speaking esp. in the southern US in which some vowel sounds are made longer and which therefore seems slower than usual: |
| To speak with lengthened or drawn-out vowels. |
| To utter with lengthened or drawn-out vowels: "We-e-ell, the clerk drawled. |
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A drawl is a perceived feature of some varieties of spoken English, and generally indicates longer vowel sounds and diphthongs. Varieties of English which are said to feature pronounced drawls include Southern American English, Broad Australian English, and Broad New Zealand English. * The Southern Drawl, or the diphthongization or triphthongization, of the traditional short front vowels as in the words pat, pet, and pit: these develop a glide up from their original starting position to [j] and, in some cases, back down to schwa.* /æ/ [æj()] * // [j()] * // [j()]The "cavalry drawl" was a phenomenon of English-speaking officers of England, noted around 1840. Officers in smart cavalry regiments would talk affecting a drawling delivery, and lisping. * * |