Mumble vs Drawl - What's the difference?
mumble | drawl | Related terms |
(intransitive) To speak unintelligibly or inaudibly; to fail to articulate.
* Shakespeare
* Otway
To chew something gently with closed lips.
A quiet or unintelligible vocalization.
A low tone of voice.
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 .
Mumble is a related term of drawl.
As verbs the difference between mumble and drawl
is that mumble is (intransitive) to speak unintelligibly or inaudibly; to fail to articulate while drawl is to drag on slowly and heavily; while or dawdle away time indolently.As nouns the difference between mumble and drawl
is that mumble is a quiet or unintelligible vocalization while drawl is a way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together characteristic of some.mumble
English
Verb
- Please try not to mumble so I can hear you better.
- Peace, you mumbling fool.
- A wrinkled hag, with age grown double, / Picking dry sticks, and mumbling to herself.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* mumblage * mumblecore * mumblenews * mumbler * mumblety pegNoun
(en noun)- All I could hear was a mumble from the next room.
- ''He spoke in a mumble .
drawl
English
Verb
- Theologians and moralists talk mostly in a drawling and dreaming way about it.
