drawlnoun [ S ]
uk/drɔːl/us/drɑːl/a slow way of speaking in which the vowel sounds are made longer and words are not separated clearly:
a southern/Texan/mid-Atlantic drawl
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Ways of speaking
- accent
- accentuate
- aitch
- asperity
- BBC English
- cut glass
- dialect
- get your tongue around/round sth idiom
- intone
- lenis
- modulate
- monotone
- plummy
- pragmatics
- singsong
- soft-spoken
- speech therapy
- spoken
- stumble
- trip off the tongue idiom
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Ways of talking
drawl
verb [ I or T ] ukus
[ + speech ] "Hey, what's the rush? Slow down, baby!" he drawled.