drawln.
/drɔːl/, U.S. /drɔl/, /drɑl/ 1. The action or an act of drawling; esp. a way of speaking slowly using prolonged vowel sounds.Now often associated with accents of the American South.
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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [noun] > drawling or drawl
drawling1649
drawla1690
a1690 Bp. E. Hopkins Expos. Ten Commandm. (1691) 177 Those..scarce speak a word without a Drawle, or a sentence without an Oath.
1760 R. Lloyd Actor 12 The Modes of Grief are not included all In the white handkerchief and mournful drawl.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xiii. 29 They have a good deal of the Creole drawl.
1887 W. P. Frith Autobiogr. I. xxii. 318 In speaking, he had caught a little of the drawl affected in high life.
a1913 F. Rolfe Desire & Pursuit of Whole (1934) v. 38 His gesture was as amplitudinous as his drawl and deep guffaw.
2016 N.Y. Post (Nexis) 10 Oct. 66 She speaks in a Southern drawl, often starting her sentences with ‘Honey’.
2. Slow loitering pace. rare.
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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [noun] > drawling or drawl > slow pace
drawl1813
trailiness1869
1813 Monthly Rev. Apr. 504 These eulogies are written..in a more easy and natural style than the preceding specimens, which affect the drawl of solemnity.
1850 H. Rogers Ess. II. iv. 190 It is in the epistolary compositions of the age..that the drawl of our ancestors strikes us most forcibly.
1990 D. Ackerman Nat. Hist. Senses Postscript 302 I thought of..the long white drawl of a glacier on the move.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).
drawlv.
/drɔːl/, U.S. /drɔl/, /drɑl/ 1. † b. transitive. To drag (a person or thing) along the ground; (also) to draw (a person) slowly in a conveyance. Obsolete.† c. transitive. With away, out, etc. To cause (time) to pass slowly; to protract, prolong, drag out. Obsolete.
a. intransitive. To move unusually slowly, or in a lazy or loitering manner. Frequently with along. Also in figurative contexts. Now somewhat rare (and coloured by sense 2).
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the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > move or go slowly [verb (intransitive)]
creepc1175
lugc1400
to hold (also keep) foot withc1438
crawlc1460
lounge?a1513
slug1565
drawl1566
draggle1577
fodge1581
snail1582
laggerc1620
slagger1622
snail1628
flod1674
delay1690
to drag one’s slow length along1711
soss1711
loiter1728
trail1744
sidle1781
soodle1821
linger1826
ooze1847
slope1851
laggard1864
dawdle1872
tiddle1882
oozle1958
pootle1973
1566 [implied in: T. Nuce tr. Octavia i. v. sig. D.ij Drawlyng draggling lims she drewe. (at drawling adj.)].
1587 R. Rawlyns tr. A. Telesio Orpheus sig. A4v His fingers drawled, and his strokes were cold.
1609 T. Dekker Guls Horne-bk. sig. B2 All the litter of Fooles that now come drawling behinde them, neuer plaid the Clownes more naturally.
1652 E. Benlowes Theophila ii. liii. 30 Whose..March..is slow, As drawling Snails.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Warren Suffering your Net to drawl on the Ground.
1743 R. Blair Grave 18 Duller Rhimes With heavy-halting Pace that drawl along.
1780 F. Burney Jrnl. June in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (2003) IV. 154 Charlotte..drawled towards us, & asked me why I would not Dance?
1829 Examiner 616/2 Sporting in the moonshine, and drawling along the streets.
a1918 W. Owen Coll. Poems (1963) 63 The blind-cord drawls across the window-sill.
2014 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 7 Apr. 1 e Southern culture drawls along at its own pace.
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1595 F. Sabie Fissher-mans Tale sig. C1v Yong infants sprawling on the poynts of speares, Faire Virgins drawled by their yellow haire.
1640 F. Knight Relation Seaven Yeares Slaverie i. 6 Some were crucified, others having their bones broken, were drawled along the streets at horse tailes, others had their shoulders stab'd with knives.
1694 N. H. Ladies Dict. 423/2 She cut the best [stick] she was forced to like, and with much shame and perplexity.., she came drawling it after her, to her that sent her.
1759 C. Hervey Let. 12 Apr. in Lett. from Portugal, Spain, Italy & Germany (1785) I. 221 Our mules had not drawled us on far, before that beautiful ruddiness which is the harbinger of the rising sun appeared.
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the world > time > duration > have duration [verb (transitive)] > cause to endure, sustain, or prolong
lengOE
drawOE
teec1200
forlengtha1300
lengtha1300
drivec1300
tarryc1320
proloynec1350
continuec1380
to draw alonga1382
longa1382
dretch1393
conservea1398
to draw (out) in, into, at, or on lengtha1400
prorogue1419
prolongc1425
aroomc1440
prorogate?a1475
protend?a1475
dilate1489
forlong1496
relong1523
to draw out1542
sustentate1542
linger1543
defer1546
pertract1548
propagate1548
protract1548
linger1550
lengthen1555
train1556
detract?a1562
to make forth (long, longer)1565
stretch1568
extend1574
extenuate1583
dree1584
wire-draw1598
to spin out1603
trail1604
disabridge1605
produce1605
continuate1611
out-length1617
spin1629
to eke out1641
producta1670
prolongate1671
drawl1694
drag1697
perennate1698
string1867
perennialize1898
1694 tr. N. Rémond des Cours True Conduct Persons of Quality lxix. 163 'Tis an unpardonable Omission to be drawling out Time in tedious Debates.
1758 B. Thornton Idler 22 July 121 Thus..does she constantly drawl out her time, without either profit or satisfaction.
1770 Ann. Reg. 1769 210/2 Their mornings are drauled away, with perhaps a saunter upon the beach.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. 322 This languid and spiritless existence is frequently drawled on.
1822 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 5 Oct. 12 The Chancery would drawl it out..till [etc.].
1904 Broad Views Nov. 374 Men whom an evil fate sent to drawl away their youth in fashionable schools.
2.
a. intransitive. To speak or articulate something slowly using prolonged vowel sounds. Also: †to speak or write lengthily and tediously (obsolete).In this sense and sense 2b now often associated with accents of the American South.
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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > speak in a particular manner [verb (intransitive)] > drawl
drawl1609
1609 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. (ed. 2) Draule, to speake with difficultie.
1728 A. Pope Dunciad ii. 342 The Clerks..in one lazy tone, Thro' the long, heavy, painful page, drawl on.
1785 W. Cowper Task i. 95 The tedious Rector drawling o'er his head.
1816 J. Gilchrist Philos. Etymol. 185 Criticlings may drawl and drivel..about the earliest authors being most original.
1885 Manch. Weekly Times 6 June 5/5 A long-winded orator..is left to drawl away by himself.
1956 F. Loesser Big D in R. Kimball & S. Nelson Compl. Lyrics F. Loesser (2003) 185/4 You're from Big D, I can guess, By the way you drawl And the way you dress.
1992 Texas Monthly Nov. 166/1 Texans do not talk like other Americans. They drawl, twang, or sound like the Frito Bandito.
2016 Time Out Hong Kong 18 May 76/4 Along comes the king of the swingers himself, giant ape Louie—Christopher Walken drawling like a Brooklyn mob boss.
b. transitive. To speak or articulate (something) slowly using prolonged vowel sounds. Also with direct speech as object. Also with out.See note at sense 2a.
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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > say in a particular manner [verb (transitive)] > drawl
to draw outc1540
drawl1643
train1647
trail1891
1643 Revindication Psalme 105. 15 7 But the few proofs that he would have make for him, them he drawls out at length.
1658 H. Edmundson Fellow-traveller through City & Countrey (new ed.) 265 Philip when he heard his Son sing very finely and drawl it a la mode, chid him.
1795 W. Mason Ess. Eng. Church Music iii. 202 The Psalms..drawled out and bawled with..unmusical and unmeaning vehemence.
1808 L. Murray Eng. Gram. Illustr. I. iv. 335 [To say] do-o-main, pul-lee, ho-lee, fu-ree, &c. protracting or drawling out the syllable.
1882 R. L. Stevenson New Arabian Nights II. 63 ‘Ye—es,’ drawled Northmour.
1902 W. S. Gordon Recoll. Old Quarter 121 How the rustic hymns would be drawled out in the long summer days.
1917 Great Lakes Recruit June 20/2 ‘I'll be darned if I will,’ Ed drawled on.
2000 R. J. Evans Entertainment xiii. 186 ‘Chill, babe, I'm in discussion,’ Mick drawled.
c. intransitive. Of speech or a speech sound: to be uttered slowly using prolonged vowel sounds.
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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > speak in a particular manner [verb (intransitive)] > drawl > be spoken in a drawl
drawl1836
1836 T. Hook Gilbert Gurney III. 118 His words..drawled slowly over his lips.
1962 A. Purdy Poems for all Annettes 12 The lengthening vowels drawl Into a soft Slurred holiness.
2003 S. S. Tepper Companions (e-book ed.) ‘Right.’ The word drawled out, spinning itself into something more than mere agreement.
Derivatives
ˈdrawler n. a person who drawls (esp. in sense 2a).
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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [noun] > drawling or drawl > one who drawls
drawler1670
1670 W. Blake Ladies Charity School-house Roll of Highgate 110 Fools play with their souls, and drawlers at Religion cut the thread of life, and throat of them.
1791 J. Trusler Progress of Man & Society 22 The stammerers, the lispers, the quick speakers, the drawlers..are as tiresome..as those who use affected words.
1830 Ld. Tennyson Poems 152 Thou art no sabbath-drawler of old saws.
1979 N.Y. Mag. 17 Sept. 11/1 The Tennessee drawler struck me as the perfect talk-show host.
2007 Washington Post (Nexis) 21 Aug. c5 This Georgia drawler threatens to usurp T.I.'s throne as King of the South.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).
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