0 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
1 to speak in a slow way in which the vowel sounds are made longer and words are not separated clearly:
[ + speech ] "Hey, what's the rush? Slow down, baby!" he drawled.
2 a way of speaking esp. in the southern US in which some vowel sounds are made longer and which therefore seems slower than usual:
Then the hulking man in the tall chair leans toward his anxious guest and drawls, "Do you wanna hear what I think?"
a middle-aged Texan with a drawling western accent
There is no evidence to support the generalisations about the nasal sound or the drawl.
Even his drawl and the soft-hued tones of his voice offend.
Known for his courtly manners, he had a slow drawl and a quiet demeanor, which belied his sharp political sense.
She had a strikingly individual voice, drawling and deep, the latter a result of nodes on her vocal chords in the 1920s and early 1930s.
She is a country elderly woman in her mid-to-late 60s, who speaks in a southern drawl.
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parler d’une voix traînante, voix traînante…
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dræve, dræven…
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