drawling
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]drawling (plural drawlings)
- The act of speaking with a drawl.
- 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers:
- […] if I yawn over your imperfect sentences, your repeated phrases, your false pathos, your drawlings and denouncingsyour humming and hawing, your oh-ing and ah-ing, your black gloves and your white handkerchief.
Verb
[edit]drawling
- present participle and gerund of drawl
References
[edit]- “drawling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.