Meanings
comparative more drawling · superlative most drawling
- That drawls.
plural drawlings
- The act of speaking with a drawl.
[…] if I yawn over your imperfect sentences, your repeated phrases, your false pathos, your drawlings and denouncingsyour humming and hawing, your oh-ing and ah-ing, your black gloves and your white handkerchief.
1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of drawl
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drawling. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/drawling
“drawling.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/drawling. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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