Verb

(head)

(drawl)

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.

Verb

(head)

(dialectal) (draw)

* {{quote-book, year=1839, author=Charles Dickens, title=Nicholas Nickleby, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=He was the cruellest, wickedest, out-and-outerest old flint that ever drawed breath.' }}

* {{quote-book, year=1882, author=Louisa M. Alcott, title=Kitty's Class Day And Other Stories, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=I jest bounced intew the kitchen, chucked my hat intew one corner, my coat intew 'nother, kicked the cat, cussed the fire, drawed up a chair, and set scaoulin' like sixty, bein' tew mad fer talkin'. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1915, author=Zane Grey, title=The Lone Star Ranger, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=He was watchin' of you close, he said, an' just couldn't follow your hand when you drawed . }}