Drawling

Definition: Drawling

Drawling

Adjective

1. (used of speech) uttered slowly with prolonged vowels.

Date "drawling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Synonym: Drawling

Synonym: drawn-out (adj). (additional references)

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Use in Literature: Drawling

Title	Author	Quote
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	From the foul laneways he heard bursts of hoarse riot and wrangling and the drawling of drunken singers.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Drawling

"Drawling" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 88.89% of the time. "Drawling" is used about 9 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
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	88.89%	8	124,375
Adjective (general or positive)	11.11%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	9	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Drawling

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "drawling": soft-drawling.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Drawling

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
drawling	19
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Drawling

Language		Translations for "drawling"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		慢吞吞说 (Drawled). (various references)

French		traînant. (various references)

German		affektiert (affected, affectedly, finical, lackadaisical, La-di-da, mincing, pseud, smirkingly). (various references)

Hungarian		vontatott (droning, halting, languid, slack, slow, towed), nyújtott (drawn, prolate), elnyújtott (long-drawn, prolate). (various references)

Manx		sleaydey-focklyn. (various references)

Pig Latin		awlingdray

Romanian		tãrãgãnat (dallied, long winded). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Drawling

Derivations
	Words beginning with "drawling": drawlingly. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Drawling" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: drawning, srawling. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Drawling

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-g-i-l-n-r-w"
	-1 letter: darling, drawing, larding, warding.
	-2 letters: aldrin, daring, dawing, gradin, inward, lading, lawing, ligand, wading, waling, waring.
	-3 letters: algid, algin, align, argil, awing, dinar, diwan, drail, drain, drawl, drawn, garni, glair, gland, gnarl, grail, grain, grand, grind, laird, liang, liard, lidar, ligan, linga, nadir, nidal, ranid, rawin, wigan, wrang, wring.
	-4 letters: agin, airn, anil, arid.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-g-i-l-n-r-w"
	+2 letters: drawlingly.
	+3 letters: rewardingly.
	+5 letters: waterflooding.
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