drawling

English

Noun

drawling (plural drawlings)

1. The act of speaking with a drawl.
   • 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers:

     […] 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.

Verb

drawling

1. present participle and gerund of drawl

References

• “drawling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Ringwald