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Drawl vs Swear - What's the difference?

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Drawl is a related term of swear.


As verbs the difference between drawl and swear

is that drawl is to drag on slowly and heavily; while or dawdle away time indolently while swear is to take an oath or swear can be to be lazy; rest for a short while during working hours.

As nouns the difference between drawl and swear

is that drawl is a way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together characteristic of some while swear is a swearword.

As an adjective swear is

heavy.

drawl

English

Verb

  • To drag on slowly and heavily; while or dawdle away time indolently.
  • To utter or pronounce in a dull, spiritless tone, as if by dragging out the utterance.
  • To move slowly and heavily; move in a dull, slow, lazy mannner.
  • To speak with a slow, spiritless utterance, from affectation, laziness, or lack of interest.
  • * Landor
  • Theologians and moralists talk mostly in a drawling and dreaming way about it.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together. Characteristic of some .
  • See also

    * brogue * lilt * lisp * twang

    swear

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) sweren, swerien, from (etyl) through Proto-Indo-European.

    Verb

  • To take an oath.
  • *
  • *:The Bat—they called him the Bat.. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.
  • (lb) To use offensive language.
  • Synonyms
    * See also
    Usage notes
    * In sense 1, this is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . See
    Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * swear by * swear like a trooper * swear on a stack of Bibles * swear out * swear to God * swear word

    Etymology 2

    From the above verb, or from (etyl) sware, from (etyl) swaru, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A swearword.
  • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) swer, swar, from (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l), (l)

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Heavy.
  • Top-heavy; too high.
  • Dull; heavy; lazy; slow; reluctant; unwilling.
  • Niggardly.
  • A lazy time; a short rest during working hours (especially field labour); a siesta.
  • Derived terms
    * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be lazy; rest for a short while during working hours.