Crossword clues for drawl
drawl
- Southern inflection
- Southern accent feature
- Sound of the South
- Slow Southern manner of speaking
- Matthew McConaughey has one
- Feature of some American accents
- Dixie diction feature
- Country inflection
- Trait of a Southerner's speech
- Texas accent
- Talk like Forrest Gump
- Stretch one's vowels
- Speak with lengthy vowel sounds
- Speak with lengthened vowels
- Speak with a Southern accent
- Speak slowly with long vowels sounds
- Speak slowly with a Southern accent
- Speak like Scarlett
- Speak like Jimmy Stewart, say
- Speak lazily
- Speak in a slow manner
- Southerner's speech trait
- Southerner's giveaway
- Southern twang
- Southern talk
- Southern stretch?
- Southern speech trait
- Southern speech quality
- Southern speech
- Southern accent giveaway, perhaps
- Southern accent
- Slow way of speaking
- Slow speaking style
- Sign of a Southerner, perhaps
- Jimmy Carter speech feature
- Huckleberry Hound attribute
- Feature of LBJ speeches
- Elongate vowels, maybe
- Dixie diphthongization
- "Gone With the Wind" feature
- Dixie talk
- John Wayne had a little one
- Talk like Jimmy Stewart
- Say "y'all," say
- Say with two syllables where one would do, say
- One might say "y'all" with one
- Dixieland sound
- A slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels
- Extend the vowels
- Talk like Scarlett
- Talk like a Southern belle
- Speak like a Southerner
- Southern sound
- Talk like a Georgian
- Speak slowly?
- Speak sloooowly
- Make a protracted speech
- Way of speaking slowly
- Speak slowly, line getting to drag on
- Speak slowly, attract learner
- Speak slowly and lazily
- Speak in lazy manner
- Slow speech with prolonged vowels
- Slow lazy accent
- Lazy speech in sketch with minimum of laughs
- Big star back to bowl a slow delivery
- Twang with fat, round backing
- Talk slowly
- Manner of speaking for many a character on "Nashville"
- Utter slowly
- Southern ___
- Trait of Southern speech
- Speak like some Southerners
- Southern speech pattern
- Southern speech feature
- Slow speech style
- Regional twang
- Unhurried Texan twang
- Stretch one's diphthongs
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drawl \Drawl\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Drawled; p. pr. & vb. n. Drawling.] [Prob. fr. draw: cf. D. dralen to linger, tarry, Icel. dralla to loiter. See Draw, and cf. Draggle.] To utter in a slow, lengthened tone.
Drawl \Drawl\, v. i. 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.
Drawl \Drawl\, n. A lengthened, slow monotonous utterance.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, perhaps from Middle Dutch dralen, East Frisian draulen "to linger, delay," apparently an intensive of the root of draw (v.). Or else a native formation along the same lines. Related: Drawled; drawling. As a noun from 1760.
Wiktionary
n. a way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together. Characteristic of some Wikipedia:Southern American English, as well as Wikipedia:Scots. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To drag on slowly and heavily; while or dawdle away time indolently. 2 (context transitive English) To utter or pronounce in a dull, spiritless tone, as if by dragging out the utterance. 3 (context intransitive English) To move slowly and heavily; move in a dull, slow, lazy mannner. 4 (context intransitive English) To speak with a slow, spiritless utterance, from affectation, laziness, or lack of interest.
WordNet
n. a slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels
v. lengthen and slow down or draw out; "drawl one's vowels"
Wikipedia
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 and, in some cases, back down to schwa.
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.
Usage examples of "drawl".
Cheerful greetings from the other reporters, delivered in accents as diverse as brash Brooklynese and a Charleston drawl, helped dissipate them.
His drawl on the combat circuits was so thick as to be nearly another language.
The Tennessee drawl so altered even the commonest words, that she did not recognize them.
Corton drawled as he reached them, making the most perfunctory of bows to Lady Ashton and Lallie, and nothing more than the stiffest of nods to Alex.
Dalgard was a tall man in his fifties, with metal-framed glasses, pale blue eyes, and a soft drawl that he had picked up in Tedas at veterinary school.
She was a tall and handsome woman, a year older than Winton, with a long, aristocratic face, deep-blue, rather shining eyes, a gentlemanly manner, warm heart, and one of those indescribable, not unmelodious drawls that one connects with an unshakable sense of privilege.
She spoke in the slow, almost yokelish drawl that seemed typical of the modern Viennese.
The incident occurred, so the self-appointed historians drawled, when Ruby was a young woman living alone close to the Rio Lucero at a point on the mesa where the stream ran in the open, unhidden by trees, for about two miles before plunging into a gorge that deepened abruptly as the water cascaded toward the Rio Grande.
She is discussed by her dear friends with all the genteelest slang in vogue, with the last new word, the last new manner, the last new drawl, and the perfection of polite indifference.
Joe Jordan drawled, and leant casually against the bonnet of the vehicle as he allowed his hazel gaze to run over the olive-green stretch moleskins and cream shirt she wore with a sleeveless quilted olive vest and brown boots.
Texas, a girl from a gulf town, moviemade, her voice an unlaundered drawl, fierce and coarse, fit for badtempered talking blues.
In high spirits after their successful foray, the rads were talkative, excited, and clearly better educated than the average var. Their soft-voweled city accents hardly impressed the third groupeight rough-looking women, most of whom spoke the low, drawling dialect of the Southern Isles.
Ron Shock, a forty-year-old from Amarillo, Texas, who had turned twenty-one in prison and run several businesses before becoming a full-time stand-up comedian, had a small-town drawl and a gift for hyperbole that made him an unrivaled storyteller.
His voice was malted milk, pleasant and soporific, an Eastern drawl, but determined to mingle certitude and defeat, as if the first could lead nowhere but to the second.
When they entered the little dining-room of the Cinque Torre Hutte, they found it occupied by a party of English people, eating omelettes, who looked at Anna with faint signs of recognition, but did not cease talking in voices that all had a certain half-languid precision, a slight but brisk pinching of sounds, as if determined not to tolerate a drawl, and yet to have one.