Wrawled vs Drawled - What's the difference?
wrawled | drawled |
(wrawl)
(obsolete) To cry like a cat; to waul.
* 1908 , Will Sparks, Philopolis , volume 3, page 139:
(drawl)
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 wrawled and drawled
is that wrawled is (wrawl) while drawled is (drawl).wrawled
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Verb
(head)wrawl
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(en verb)- (Spenser)
- The fog horns groaned and groaned again, and siren whistled and wrawled .
Derived terms
*References
*drawled
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *drawl
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Verb
- Theologians and moralists talk mostly in a drawling and dreaming way about it.