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Stammer vs Drawl - What's the difference?

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Stammer is a related term of drawl.


As verbs the difference between stammer and drawl

is that stammer is while drawl is to drag on slowly and heavily; while or dawdle away time indolently.

As a noun drawl is

a way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together characteristic of some.

stammer

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To keep repeating a particular sound involuntarily during speech.
  • Synonyms

    * stutter

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The involuntary repetition of a sound in speech.
  • 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