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Sound
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noun
A way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together, characteristic of some Southern US accents, as well as Broad Australian, Broad New Zealand, and Scots.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To drag on slowly and heavily; to dawdle or while away time indolently.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To utter or pronounce in a dull, spiritless tone, as if by dragging out the utterance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To move slowly and heavily; to move in a dull, slow, lazy manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
To speak with a slow, spiritless utterance, as from affectation, laziness, or lack of interest.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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noun
a slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: accent, speech pattern
verb
lengthen and slow down or draw out
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say
History
From a modern frequentative form of draw, equivalent to draw + -le. Compare draggle. Compare also Dutch dralen (“to drag out, delay, linger, tarry, dawdle”), Old Danish dravle (“to linger, loiter”), Icelandic dralla (“to loiter, linger”).
Across languages
26 source translations are retained for this English entry.
