drawl

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
drawl
    n 1: a slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels
    v 1: lengthen and slow down or draw out; "drawl one's vowels"
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Drawl \Drawl\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Drawled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Drawling}.] [Prob. fr. draw: cf. D. dralen to linger, tarry,
   Icel. dralla to loiter. See {Draw}, and cf. {Draggle}.]
   To utter in a slow, lengthened tone.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Drawl \Drawl\, v. i.
   To speak with slow and lingering utterance, from laziness,
   lack of spirit, affectation, etc.
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         Theologians and moralists . . . talk mostly in a
         drawling and dreaming way about it.      --Landor.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Drawl \Drawl\, n.
   A lengthened, slow monotonous utterance.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
88 Moby Thesaurus words for "drawl":
      accent, bark, bawl, bellow, blare, blat, blubber, boom, bray,
      breathe, broad accent, brogue, burr, buzz, cackle, cautiousness,
      chant, chirp, circumspection, coo, creeping, croak, crow,
      deliberateness, deliberation, exclaim, flute, foot-dragging, gasp,
      growl, grunt, hiss, idleness, indolence, inertia, inertness, keen,
      languor, laziness, leisureliness, lentitude, lentor, lilt, lisp,
      mince, mumble, murmur, mutter, pant, pipe, pokiness, quaver,
      regional accent, reluctance, roar, rumble, scream, screech, shake,
      shriek, sibilate, sigh, sing, slackness, sloth, slowness,
      sluggardy, sluggishness, snap, snarl, snort, sob, squall, squawk,
      squeal, talk incoherently, tentativeness, thunder, trumpet, twang,
      wail, warble, whine, whisper, yap, yawp, yell, yelp
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