drawl Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels
  2. verb lengthen and slow down or draw out
    • drawl one's vowels

WordNet

Drawl transitive verb
Etymology
Prob. fr. draw: cf. D. dralen to linger, tarry, Icel. dralla to loiter. See Draw, and cf. Draggle.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Drawled ; present participle & verbal noun Drawling
Definitions
  1. To utter in a slow, lengthened tone.
Drawl intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To speak with slow and lingering utterance, from laziness, lack of spirit, affectation, etc.
    Theologians and moralists . . . talk mostly in a drawling and dreaming way about it. Landor.
Drawl noun
Definitions
  1. A lengthened, slow monotonous utterance.

Webster 1913