different between drawl vs drail
drawl
English
Etymology
From a modern frequentative form of draw, equivalent to draw +? -le. Compare draggle. Compare also Dutch dralen (“to drag out, delay, linger, tarry, dawdle”), Old Danish dravle (“to linger, loiter”), Icelandic dralla (“to loiter, linger”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d???l/
- (US) IPA(key): /d??l/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /d??l/
- (Can we verify(+) this pronunciation?) (US, paragon) IPA(key): /d????w/
- Rhymes: -??l
Verb
drawl (third-person singular simple present drawls, present participle drawling, simple past and past participle drawled)
- (transitive) To drag on slowly and heavily; to 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 manner.
- (intransitive) To speak with a slow, spiritless utterance, from affectation, laziness, or lack of interest.
- Template:Landor IC
- talk sometimes a pestilence , and sometimes a hero , mostly in a drawling and dreaming way about it
- Template:Landor IC
Translations
Noun
drawl (plural drawls)
- A way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together. Characteristic of some southern US accents, as well as Scots.
Translations
See also
- brogue
- lilt
- lisp
- twang
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drail
English
Etymology
From Middle English *drailen (attested as drailed), a variant of Middle English trailen (“to hang loosely, drag along, drag away”), from a merger of Old French trailer, traillier (“to trail”) and Old English tr??lian, tr??elian (“to pluck, pull away”). The alteration of trailen to drailen was probably due to influence from Middle English dragan, drawen (“to drag, draw”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?e?l/
- Rhymes: -e?l
Noun
drail (plural drails)
- (fishing) A hook with a lead shank.
- (fishing) The piece of lead around the shank of such a hook.
- The iron bow of a plough from which the traces draw.
Verb
drail (third-person singular simple present drails, present participle drailing, simple past and past participle drailed)
- (fishing, obsolete) To trail; to draggle.
Anagrams
- LIDAR, Laird, laird, larid, liard, lidar
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