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# drawl

«drawl» in Mova's school dictionary: **To speak slowly, stretching out the vowel sounds** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (drawl, drawls, drawled, drawling); noun (a drawl)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To speak slowly, stretching out the vowel sounds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drawl/#m1)

2) A slow way of speaking with long vowel sounds, often typical of a region, like a Southern drawl in the USA. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drawl/#m2)

3) A drawl can also mean a long, slow, lazy growl made by an animal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drawl/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories, «drawled» is used as a speech verb to show a lazy, relaxed, bored or cocky way of talking; in talk about accents, a drawl belongs to some regions; phrases: «a Southern drawl», «a lazy drawl», «he drawled».

### examples

- «Well, howdy, folks,» the cowboy drawled. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drawl/#x1)
- She spoke with a slow Texas drawl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drawl/#x2)
- «I'm sooo bored,» drawled my sister. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drawl/#x3)
- His Australian drawl made everyone smile. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drawl/#x4)
- The cat yawned, and the boy drawled, «Time for bed.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drawl/#x5)
- You can hear a drawl when people stretch their words. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drawl/#x6)
- After a long time there came back the drawling, sleepy snarl of a full-fed tiger just wakened. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drawl/#x7)

### note

Regular verb: drawled. Do not confuse with «draw» or «drool». In writing, it is a good alternative to «said» when someone talks slowly.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «drawl» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drawl/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.