Drawl vs Draws - What's the difference?
drawl | draws |
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
a way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together. Characteristic of some .
As verbs the difference between drawl and draws
is that drawl is to drag on slowly and heavily; while or dawdle away time indolently while draws is third-person singular of draw.As nouns the difference between drawl and draws
is that drawl is a way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together. Characteristic of some southern US accents, as well as Scots while draws is plural of lang=en.drawl
English
Verb
- Theologians and moralists talk mostly in a drawling and dreaming way about it.
