Uttal
- UK:
- US:
- cot-caught:
- paragon:
Ordet hittades på dessa språk:
Definitioner
Verb
- (transitive) To drag on slowly and heavily; while or dawdle away time indolently.
- (transitive) To utter or pronounce in a dull, spiritless tone, as if by dragging out the utterance.
- (intransitive) To move slowly and heavily; move in a dull, slow, lazy mannner.
- (intransitive) To speak with a slow, spiritless utterance, from affectation, laziness, or lack of interest.
Substantiv
- a way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together. Characteristic of some southern US accents, as well as Scots.
Exempel
- Theologians and moralists [...] talk mostly in a drawling and dreaming way about it.
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