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单词 drant
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drantdrauntn.

Etymology: < drant v.
dialect.
a. A droning or drawling tone.
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1721 A. Ramsay Lucky Spence ii Nor wi' your draunts and droning deave me.
a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 56 To wait on their drants.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) (at cited word) He reads with a drant.
b. ‘A slow and dull tune’ (Jamieson).
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1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (1818) Drant.
1852 T. Aird Memoir in D. M. Moir Poet. Wks. I. p. xxix A kind of rant, or drant..often fixes itself upon the public.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

drantdrauntv.

/drɑːnt//drant/
Etymology: apparently onomatopoeic, after drawl or drone and rant. Recorded from Scotland and East Anglia. Other dialects have drunt, drate.
dialect.
a. intransitive. To drawl or drone in speech.
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1724 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) II. 141 To drivel and drant While I sigh and gaunt.
a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 810 Lest you think I am uncivil, To plague you with this draunting drivel.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Drant, to drawl in speaking or reading; more properly draunt (like aunt). It may be connected with drone.
b. transitive. To drawl or drone out.
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a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 182 To draunt and drivel out a life at hame.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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