DRAWL
Dictionary entry overview: What does drawl mean?
• DRAWL (noun)
The noun DRAWL has 1 sense:
1. a slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels
Familiarity information: DRAWL used as a noun is very rare.
• DRAWL (verb)
The verb DRAWL has 1 sense:
1. lengthen and slow down or draw out
Familiarity information: DRAWL used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• DRAWL (noun)
Meaning:
A slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("drawl" is a kind of...):
accent; speech pattern (distinctive manner of oral expression)
• DRAWL (verb)
Meaning:
Lengthen and slow down or draw out
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Context example:
drawl one's vowels
Hypernyms (to "drawl" is one way to...):
articulate; enounce; enunciate; pronounce; say; sound out (speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
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