Thesaurus: drawl

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1. v. t. To utter in a slow, lengthened tone.
2. v. i. To speak with slow and lingering utterance, from laziness, lack of spirit, affectation, etc.
3. n. A lengthened, slow monotonous utterance.
4. n. a slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels
5. v. lengthen and slow down or draw out
6. To utter in a slow, lengthened tone. 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. A lengthened, slow monotonous utterance.
7. v:42/n:58 n. a slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels v. lengthen and slow down or draw out