What does "drawl" mean?
Drawl: To utter in a slow, lengthened tone.
Additional senses
- 2.To speak with slow and lingering utterance, from laziness, lack of spirit, affectation, etc. Theologians and moralists . . . talk mostly in a drawling and dreaming way about it. Landor.
- 3.A lengthened, slow monotonous utterance.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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