DRAWL
What does "DRAWL" mean?
A slow, lazy way of speaking with prolonged vowel sounds.
Meanings
- A manner of speech in which the vowels are drawn out unusually long. His slow Texas drawl made every sentence feel unhurried.
- To speak slowly with prolonged, lazy vowels. She drawled her reply, in no hurry to finish.
Word origin
Probably a frequentative of 'draw' (to pull or draw out), evoking the stretching-out of vowels; possibly influenced by Dutch or Low German 'dralen' (to linger, delay).
Remember it
DRAWL is DRAW plus L - you DRAW out the vowels so long the word itself stretches.
A little poem
He let the word out like a screen door,
slow on its hinge, swung soft and wide-
a vowel can hold a porch inside.
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Wordplay
- I asked the cowboy to speak faster. He drawled, 'Now why would I go and ruin a good word like that?'
What it teaches
Slowness is its own grammar: a drawl says you have nowhere more important to be.
Quick facts
What does DRAWL mean?
A slow, lazy way of speaking with prolonged vowel sounds.
Is DRAWL a valid word?
Yes — DRAWL is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is DRAWL?
DRAWL has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does DRAWL come from?
Probably a frequentative of 'draw' (to pull or draw out), evoking the stretching-out of vowels; possibly influenced by Dutch or Low German 'dralen' (to linger, delay).
What can DRAWL teach us?
Slowness is its own grammar: a drawl says you have nowhere more important to be.
How players do
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