Drawl

Definition: Drawl

Drawl

Noun

1. A slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels.

Verb

1. In particular, draw out the vowels.

Date "drawl" was first used: 1597. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Inactivity	Verb: be inactive; Adjective: do nothing; move slowly; let the grass grow under one's feet; take one's time, dawdle, drawl, droil, lag, hang back, slouch; loll, lollop; lounge, poke, loaf, loiter; go to sleep over; sleep at one's post, ne battre que d'une aile.
Length	Render long; Adjective: lengthen, extend, elongate; stretch; prolong, produce, protract; let out, draw out, spin out; drawl.
Slowness	Verb: move slowly; adVerb: creep, crawl, lag, slug, drawl, linger, loiter, saunter; plod, trudge, stump along, lumber; trail, drag; dawdle; (be inactive); grovel, worm one's way, steal along; job on, rub on, bundle on; toddle, waddle, wabble, slug, traipse, slouch, shuffle, halt, hobble, limp, caludicate, shamble; flag, falter, trotter, stagger; mince, step short; march in slow time, march in funeral procession; take one's time; hang fire; (be late).
	Noun: slowness; Adjective: languor; (inactivity); drawl; creeping; Verb:, lentor.
Stammering	Noun: inarticulateness; stammering; Verb: hesitation; Verb: impediment in one's speech; titubancy, traulism; whisper; (faint sound); lisp, drawl, tardiloquence; nasal tone, nasal accent; twang; falsetto; (want of voice); broken voice, broken accents, broken sentences.
	Mumble, mutter; maud, mauder; whisper; mince, lisp; jabber, gibber; sputter, splutter; muffle, mump; drawl, mouth; croak; speak thick, speak through the nose; snuffle, clip one's words; murder the language, murder the King's English, murder the Queen's English; mispronounce, missay.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Drawl

English words defined with "drawl": Drawled, drawler ♦ fashionably. (references)

Domain	Usage
Lyrics	Sounthern girl with a scarlet drawl (Scar Tissue; performing artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Elegy for a Southern Drawl (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Orcus Drawl / Idiophone (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Through the Looking-Glass	Carroll, Lewis	Alice almost stamped with irritation at the slow drawl in which he spoke.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Drawl" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.69% of the time. "Drawl" is used about 116 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	95.69%	111	30,796
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	2.59%	3	202,518
Lexical Verb (base form)	1.72%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	116	N/A

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Language		Translations for "drawl"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zvarritje e fjalëve, zvarrit (drag, draw, haul, lug, procrastinate, trail), zgjas fjalët, i zvarris fjalët. (various references)

Arabic		‏تشدق. (various references)

Bulgarian		говоря провлечено, провлечен говор. (various references)

Czech		afektovaná pomalost řeèi. (various references)

Farsi		کشیده حرف زدن , کشیدن (Chart, Drag, Draw, Entrain, Experience, Figure, Hale, Haul, Heave, Lave, Lengthen, Peg, Pluck, Pull, Strain, Strap, String, Suffer, Trace, Trawl, Weigh), اهسته وکشیده اداکردن . (various references)

Finnish		puhua venytellen. (various references)

French		parler d'une voix traînante, annoncer d'une voix traînante. (various references)

German		schleppend sprechen, gedehntes sprechen, gedehnt sprechen. (various references)

Greek		συρτή φωνή, βραδυγλωσσία (stutter), ομιλώ σαν βραδύγλωσσοσ. (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"בר לאט, �"בור אטי. (various references)

Hungarian		vontatottan beszél (to drawl, to drawl out), vontatott beszédmód. (various references)

Italian		strascicare le parole, pronuncia lenta, parlare lentamente (speak slower). (various references)

Korean		늘임새. (various references)

Manx		sleadey-focklyn, caayney (beg, bray, chant, whine). (various references)

Norwegian		snakke med slepende tonefall. (various references)

Pig Latin		awldray

Portuguese		pronunciação lenta, falar pausadamente. (various references)

Romanian		vorbi tãrãgãnat şi afectat, tãrãgãna (dally, drone, hang a leg, shuffle, Tarry, temporize). (various references)

Russian		протяжное произношение. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		sporo izgovaranje, razvlačiti reči, otezati u govoru, otezanje u govoru. (various references)

Spanish		habla lenta y cansina, arrastrar las palabras. (various references)

Swedish		tala släpigt, släpigt tal. (various references)

Turkish		sözcükleri uzatarak konuşmak, ağır konuşmak (have a rough tongue, scorch), ağır ağır konuşma. (various references)

Ukrainian		розтягувати слова, тягти (drag, draggle, draw, haul, lug, pluck, protract, pug, pull, rush, tow, trail), протяжна вимова, плентатися (dodder, inch along, lag, navigate, plug along, scuff, scuffle, shamble, trudge). (various references)

Vietnamese		lời nói lè nhè, giọng nói lè nhè, giọng nói kéo d� i. (various references)

Welsh		llusgo (crawl, drag, trail). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Middle Dutch	1100-1500	dralen. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "drawl": drawled, drawler, drawlers, drawlier, drawliest, drawling, drawlingly, drawls, drawly. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Drawl" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: darul, dawl, dawly, Diawl, draal, dracl, draew, dral, drale, draow, drarw, drawd, drawe, drawel, drawr, drawt, dreaw, drewl, drgw, driw, droaw, drowl, drowr, drw, drwa, Rawl. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "drawl" (pronounced drô"l)
3	-r ô" l	brawl, crawl, enthral, scrawl, sprawl, thrall.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-l-r-w"
	-1 letter: draw, lard, ward.
	-2 letters: awl, dal, daw, lad, lar, law, rad, raw, wad, war.
	-3 letters: ad, al, ar, aw, la.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-l-r-w"
	+1 letter: drawls, drawly.
	+2 letters: bradawl, brawled, crawled, dawdler, drawled, drawler, drywall, leeward, trawled, waddler, warbled, warlord, warsled.
	+3 letters: aardwolf, blowhard, bradawls, cowardly, dawdlers, drawable, drawlers, drawlier, drawling, drywalls, goalward, inwardly, landward, lawyered, leadwork, leadwort, leewards, leftward, loanword, moldwarp, poleward, scrawled, selfward, sprawled, tawdrily, towardly, twaddler, upwardly, waddlers, warlords, warstled, willyard, wizardly, woodlark, wordplay, workload, wrangled, wrassled, wrastled.
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