drawl
Deveno |
Elparolo |
- IFA: usona /dɹɔl/
- (cot–caught-unuiĝo) IFA: /dɹɑl/
- Ŝablono:rfv-pronunciation (Usono, paragon) IFA: /dʒɹɑːw/
Signifoj |
- [1] trene paroli; trena parolo; drawling - gerundio kaj participo de la verbo "drawl"; trene parola
Samsencaĵoj |
- transitive To drag on slowly and heavily; while or dawdle away time indolently.
- transitive To utter or pronounce in a dull, spiritless tone, as if by dragging out the utterance.
- intransitive To move slowly and heavily; move in a dull, slow, lazy mannner.
- intransitive 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.
- Landor
Tradukoj |
Signifoj |
[1]
Samsencaĵoj |
- a way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together. Characteristic of some southern US accents, as well as Scots.
Tradukoj |
way of speaking slowly
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