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▪ I. drawl, v.|drɔːl|
Also 7–8 draul(e.
[Appears in end of 16th c.: perh. introduced in Vagabonds' Cant from Du. or LG. Cf. Du. dralen to loiter, linger, delay, in Kilian (1599) draelen ‘cunctari, morari, trahere moram’ (prob. also in MDu.), LG. drâlen, EFris. dralen, in same sense; also EFris. draueln, draulen, LG. draueln (Brem. Wb.) to linger, loiter, dawdle. App., in origin, an intensive deriv. from the root of draw v.: cf. mod.Icel. dralla quasi dragla to loiter.]
1. a. intr. To move along with slow and loitering pace; to crawl or drag along. Now rare or Obs.
1652Benlowes Theoph. ii. liii. 30 Whose..march..is slow as drawling snails. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Warren, Suffering your Net to drawl on the Ground. 1780F. Burney Diary May, Charlotte..drawled towards us, and asked me why I would not dance? 1829Examiner 616/2 Sporting in the moonshine, and drawling along the streets. a1918W. Owen Poems (1963) 63 The blind-cord drawls across the window-sill.
b. Of words.
1597Bp. Hall Sat. i. vi. 8 The nimble dactils striving To out-go The drawling spondees pacing it below. 1743R. Blair Grave 316 Duller rhymes With heavy halting pace that drawl along. 1836T. Hook G. Gurney III. 118 His words..drawled slowly over his lips.
2. intr. To prolong or lengthen out the sounds of speech in an indolent or affected manner; to speak slowly, by affectedly prolonging the words.
1598Shakes. Merry W. ii. i. 145, I neuer heard such a drawling-affecting rogue. 1604R. Cawdrey Table Alph. (1613), Draule, to speake slowly. 1728Pope Dunc. ii. 388 The clerks..in one lazy tone, Thro' the long, heavy, painful page drawl on. 1784Cowper Task i. 95 The tedious Rector drawling o'er his head. 1885Manch. Weekly Times 6 June 5/5 A long-winded orator..is left to drawl away by himself.
3. trans. To utter with lazy slowness: chiefly with out. Also freq. with quoted words as obj.
1663Hawkins Youths Behav. 24 If any drawl forth his words. 1795Mason Ch. Mus. iii. 202 The Psalms..drawled out and bawled with..unmusical and unmeaning vehemence. 1824L. Murray Eng. Gram. (ed. 5) I. 355 [To say] do-o-main, pul-lee, ho-lee, fu-ree, &c. protracting or drawling out the syllable. 1842Lever J. Hinton xxx, ‘Them chaps always recover,’ drawled out the doctor in a dolorous cadence. 1865Trollope Belton Est. xvi. 187 When the squire..drawled out some expression of regret. 1878R. L. Stevenson New Arab. Nts. II. vi. 66 ‘Ye—es,’ drawled Northmour.
4. To cause to pass on or away, or move along slowly and laggingly; to drag out, on, etc.
1758Johnson Idler No. 15 ⁋7 Thus..does she constantly drawl out her time, without either profit or satisfaction. 1769Misc. in Ann. Reg. 210/2 Their mornings are drauled away, with perhaps a saunter upon the beach. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. I. 197 This languid and spiritless existence is frequently drawled on. 1825Cobbett Rur. Rides (1830) I. 119 The Chancery would drawl it out till [etc.].
Hence drawled ppl. a., ˈdrawling vbl. n.; also ˈdrawler.
1648Milton Observ. Art. Peace Wks. (1851) 571 The common drawling of thir Pulpit elocution. 1656S. Holland Zara (1719) 140 A Subburb Letcher, or a drawl'd Prostitute. 1663Hawkins Youths Behav. 28. 1830 Tennyson Sonn. to J. M. K., Thou art no sabbath-drawler of old saws.
▪ II. drawl, n.
[f. prec. vb.]
The action of drawling; a slow, indolent utterance.
1760Lloyd Actor (R.), The white handkerchief and mournful drawl. 1781Cowper Hope 199 His weekly drawl, Though short, too long. 1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast xiii. 29 They have a good deal of the Creole drawl. 1887Frith Autobiog. I. xxii. 318 In speaking, he had caught a little of the drawl affected in high life.
b. Slow loitering pace. rare.
1850H. Rogers Ess. II. iv. 190 It is in the epistolary compositions of the age..that the drawl of our ancestors strikes us most forcibly. |