drawled

Verb

drawl (third-person singular simple present drawls, present participle drawling, simple past and past participle drawled)

1. (transitive) To drag on slowly and heavily; to dawdle or while away time indolently.
2. (transitive) To utter or pronounce in a dull, spiritless tone, as if by dragging out the utterance.
3. (intransitive) To move slowly and heavily; to move in a dull, slow, lazy manner.
   • Tush, tush, Tarleton, Kemp, nor Singer, nor all the litter of Fooles that now come drawling behinde them, neuer plaid the Clownes more naturally then the arrantest Sot of you all, shall, if hee will but boyle my Instructions in his brainepan.1609, Thomas Dekker, The guls horne-booke, pages 3-4
4. (intransitive) To speak with a slow, spiritless utterance, as from affectation, laziness, or lack of interest.
   • talk sometimes a pestilence , and sometimes a hero , mostly in a drawling and dreaming way about it1828, Walter Savage Landor, “Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC

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