Definitions
lengthen and slow down or draw out
Word origin
From a modern frequentative form of draw, equivalent to draw + -le. Compare draggle. Compare also Dutch dralen (“to drag out, delay, linger, tarry, dawdle”), Old Danish dravle (“to linger, loiter”), Icelandic dralla (“to loiter, linger”).
Used in a sentence
“Looke what leysure the old bearded Bawd takes / How softly she goes / How one leg comes drawling after another / Now she has her money, her armes are broken.”
“talk sometimes a pestilence , and sometimes a hero , mostly in a drawling and dreaming way about it”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Slow way of speaking”5 letters
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