drawlingn.
/ˈdrɔːlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈdrɔlɪŋ/, /ˈdrɑlɪŋ/ The action of speaking or articulating slowly using prolonged vowel sounds; an instance of this.
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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [noun] > drawling or drawl
drawling1649
drawla1690
1649 J. Milton Observations in Articles of Peace with Irish Rebels 58 The common drawling of thir Pulpit elocution.
1725 T. Fuller Direct. Counsels & Cautions 184 Troublesome, sottish Drawlings and silly Niceties.
1896 Musical Rec. (Boston) Oct. 9/2 The Westerners differ in their manner of drawling.
1996 C. Feagin in G. R. Guy et al. Towards Social Sci. Lang. 151 This single vowel can be taken as an example of the drawling of short front vowels.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).
drawlingadj.
/ˈdrɔːlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈdrɔlɪŋ/, /ˈdrɑlɪŋ/ That moves unusually slowly, or in a lazy or loitering manner; (also) that speaks or articulates something slowly using prolonged vowel sounds; characterized by drawling.
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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [adjective] > drawling
drawling1566
the world > time > duration > [adjective] > long-lasting or enduring > too long or tedious > slow-moving
drawling1566
fly-slow1632
draggy1887
1566 T. Nuce tr. Octavia i. v. sig. D.ij Drawlyng draggling lims she drewe.
1597 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks. i. vi. 13 The nimble Dactils striuing to out-go The drawling Spondees pacing it below.
1645 J. Milton Colasterion 15 A tedious and drawling tale of burning, and burning, and lust and burning.
a1649 S. Crook Τα Διαϕεροντα (1658) i. xxxi. 458 He may be called the whining, groaning, or drawling hypocrite.
1741 A. Pope et al. Art of Sinking 217 in A. Pope Wks. II Pretty drawling words like these.
1798 F. Llewelynn Let. in P. Francis et al. Francis Lett. (1901) II. 426 I thought Mrs. Siddons in some parts monotonous and Drawling.
1863 N. Hawthorne Our Old Home I. 250 The drawling, snail-like slothfulness of our progress.
1914 C. M. Campbell Focal Symptoms in Gen. Paralysis 92 His speech was very defective and drawling.
1952 Daily Capital News (Jefferson City, Missouri) 19 July 5/4 The drawling pace of the long races taxes the nerves.
2018 Racing Post (Nexis) 31 Jan. 10 I got a powerful slap on the back and heard Peter's familiar drawling voice.
Derivatives
ˈdrawlingly adv. in a drawling manner.
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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [adverb] > in a drawling manner
drawingly1578
drawlingly1633
1633 E. Kellett Misc. Divinitie ii. 78 Non volens, sluggishly, drawlingly, formally, for fashions sake.
1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 643 Blarney sings drawlingly like a street singer.
2005 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 28 Aug. (Mag.) 8 She speaks in the sort of drawlingly proper accent that's as English as heavy puddings and light bondage.
ˈdrawlingness n. now somewhat rare the quality of drawling speech or articulation.
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1742 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Draulingly, speaking very slowly. Draulingness, Slowness in Speech.
1766 H. Kelly Thespis 9 A nice affected drawlingness of phrase.
1834 M. Boddington Slight Reminisc. Rhine II. v. 169 It is so soft, soft even to drawlingness.
2015 @_adiamond 9 Aug. in twitter.com (accessed 23 Apr. 2019) I have to turn my craziness and my drawlingness down.
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draw-ling
draw-ling n. /ˈdrɑˌlɪŋ/ Scottish (southern) and English regional (Northumberland) any of several sedges (family Cyperaceae) found throughout the Holarctic; esp. the cotton grass Eriophorum vaginatum and the deergrass Trichophorum cespitosum. [So called (to distinguish the plants from other kinds of ling) because when grazed by sheep the tender stems are tugged or drawn out rather than bitten (compare quot. 1815); compare also Scots (southern) pull-ling (1794) and (south-western) draw-moss (1894), both denoting the cotton grass Eriophorum vaginatum.]
Brit. /ˈdrɔːlɪŋ/
, /ˈdrɔːlɪŋ/U.S. /ˈdrɔˌlɪŋ/
, /ˈdrɔˌlɪŋ//ˈdrɑˌlɪŋ/ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > bulrush or club-rush
bulrushc1440
holrushc1440
glagol1480
cat's tail1548
reedmace1548
Typha1548
sun's brow1567
marsh beetle1578
marsh pestle1578
mat-rush1578
pole rush1578
water torch1578
water cat's-tail1597
ditch-down1611
doda1661
club-rush1677
deer-hair1777
club-grass1787
draw-ling1795
raupo1823
tule1837
boulder1847
blackheads1850
cat-o'-nine-tails1858
flax-tail1861
bull-sedge1879
mace reed1901
totora1936
1795 J. Naismith Observ. Breeds Sheep i. 7 Sweet grasses to feed them [sc. sheep] up in autumn, heath and bent for their winter support, and ling, moss-crops, drawling, &c. to furnish an early bite in the spring.
1811 W. Aiton Gen. View Agric. Ayr 475 Heather and the draw-ling (Scirpus cæspitosus) are the chief plants that the sheep can eat.
1815 Wks. of Alexander Pennecuik 54 Note: Draw-ling (the Eriophorum Vaginatum Linnaei, Bog Cotton, or Moss-crop) succeeds it in March, so designed because the sheep, without biting, seize tenderly the part above ground, and draw up a long white part of the plant in a socket below.
1925 Amer. Botanist Oct. 167 This reminds me that among English synonyms of Eriophorum, probably without discrimination of species, is ‘draw ling’ or ‘pull ling’, which seems to mean that this plant grows in localities favorable to the growth of ling or heather—at least that is what suggests itself.
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adj.1566as lemmas