单词 | drawly |
释义 | drawlyadj. Of a drawling nature; given to or characterized by drawling, esp. of speech. ΚΠ 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Drawlie, slow, and at the same time slovenly. 1826 H. N. Coleridge Six Months W. Indies 331 Life in the West Indies has its pleasures and pains... The latter are perspiration, mosquitos, and the yawny-drawly way in which the men converse. 1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log II. i. 28 The old Don..so staid and so sedate and drawley as he was a minute before. 1910 T. E. Crispe Reminisc. of K.C. (new ed.) xxiv. 223 Serjeant Ballantine used to say in his drawly way, ‘I always leave the law-ar to my learned juni-ar’. 2010 S. Fry Fry Chrons. 66 Listen to their drawly public-school voices. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022). < adj.1825 |
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