Definisjon av drawl

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Noun

drawl - a slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels
speech pattern, accent a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation

Verb

drawl - lengthen and slow down or draw out; "drawl one's vowels"
enounce, enunciate, pronounce, sound out, articulate, say pronounce judgment on; "They labeled him unfit to work here"
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Substantiv

drawl - A way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together. Characteristic of some American southern US accents, as well as Scots.

Verb

drawl - To drag on slowly and heavily; while or dawdle away time indolently.
drawl - To utter or pronounce in a dull, spiritless tone, as if by dragging out the utterance.
drawl - To move slowly and heavily; move in a dull, slow, lazy mannner.
drawl - To speak with a slow, spiritless utterance, from affectation, laziness, or lack of interest.

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  • A drawl is a perceived feature of some varieties of spoken English, and generally indicates longer vowel sounds and/or diphthongs. Varieties of English which are said to feature pronounced drawls include Southern American English, Californian English and Australian English, especially Broad Australian English. The Southern Drawl, or the diphthongization or triphthongization of the traditional short front vowels as in the words pat, pet, and pit: these develop a glide up from their original starting position to [j j] and, in some cases, back down to schwa.

Verb

  • Infinitiv: (to) drawl
  • Presens: drawl / drawls
  • Preteritum: drawled
  • Perfektum: (have) drawled

Substantiv

  • Entall: drawl
  • Flertall: drawls

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