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発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /dɹɔːl/
  • (米国発音) IPA^(key): /dɹɔl/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /dɹɑl/
  • (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?) (米国発音, paragon) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɹɑːw/

  韻: -ɔːl

動詞

drawl (三人称単数 現在形 drawls, 現在分詞 drawling, 過去形および過去分詞形 drawled)

1. (transitive) To drag on slowly and heavily; to while or dawdle 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; move in a dull, slow, lazy manner.
4. (intransitive) To speak with a slow, spiritless utterance, from affectation, laziness, or lack of interest.
   • 1828, Walter Savage Landor, “Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:

     talk sometimes a pestilence , and sometimes a hero , mostly in a drawling and dreaming way about it

名詞

drawl (複数形 drawls)

1. 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.

派生語

• Southern drawl

参考

• brogue
• lilt
• lisp
• twang