drawl

Definitions

1. 1.To utter in a slow, lengthened tone.
2. 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. 3.A lengthened, slow monotonous utterance.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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