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”).
Meanings
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.
es habla arrastrada/arrastrante (way of speaking slowly) · sh otezanje (way of speaking slowly) · de gedehnte Aussprache (way of speaking slowly) · sh razvlačenje (way of speaking slowly) · pl przeciąganie samogłosek (way of speaking slowly) · cs jižanský přízvuk (way of speaking slowly) · cs pomalý styl řeči (way of speaking slowly) · sv sludder (way of speaking slowly) · it strascico (way of speaking slowly) · de gedehnte Sprechweise (way of speaking slowly) · bg провлечен говор (way of speaking slowly) · sv släpigt tal (way of speaking slowly)
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”).
Meanings
(transitive) To drag on slowly and heavily; to dawdle or while 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; to move in a dull, slow, lazy manner.
Looke what leysure the old bearded Bawd takes / How softly she goes / How one leg comes drawling after another / Now she has her money, her armes are broken. 1631, Fernando de Rojas, The Spanish bavvd, represented in Celestina …, page 36:
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:
(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 it 1828, Walter Savage Landor, “Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
uk протягнути (to speak with a drawl) · sh razvlačiti (to speak with a drawl) · cs mluvit pomalu (to speak with a drawl) · sh otezati (to speak with a drawl) · sv söla (to speak with a drawl) · bg говоря провлечено (to speak with a drawl) · nl lijzig spreken (to speak with a drawl) · pl przeciągać samogłoski (to speak with a drawl) · de gedehnt sprechen (to speak with a drawl) · cs mumlat (to speak with a drawl) · de schleppend sprechen (to speak with a drawl) · ro tărăgăna (to speak with a drawl) · uk розтягувати слова (to speak with a drawl) · pl przeciągnąć samogłoski (to speak with a drawl) · es arrastrar las palabras (to speak with a drawl) · cs zamumlat (to speak with a drawl)