drawl

Plural: drawls

Noun

a slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels
A way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together, characteristic of some Southern US accents, as well as Broad Australian, Broad New Zealand, and Scots.

Verb

Verb Forms: drawled, drawling, drawls

To speak slowly, prolonging vowels, often in a lazy or regional way.
lengthen and slow down or draw out
- "drawl one's vowels"
To drag on slowly and heavily; to dawdle or while away time indolently.
To utter or pronounce in a dull, spiritless tone, as if by dragging out the utterance.
To move slowly and heavily; to move in a dull, slow, lazy manner.
To speak with a slow, spiritless utterance, as from affectation, laziness, or lack of interest.

Examples

He tried to drawl out a confession of his Scrabble cheating, but his opponent wasn’t buying it.

Origin / Etymology

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”).

Scrabble Score: 9

drawl: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
drawl: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
drawl: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

drawl: valid Words With Friends Word