drawl
verb / noun
Meaning
- verbTo drag on slowly and heavily; to dawdle or while away time indolently.
- nounA way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together, characteristic of some Southern US accents, as well as Broad Australian, Broad New Zealand, and Scots.
- verbTo utter or pronounce in a dull, spiritless tone, as if by dragging out the utterance.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Five-letter puzzle facts
- How common
- Less common
- #2,299 of 8,600 five-letter words by how often they're used
- Can be a Play Five answer
- As a first guess
- Tests likely letters better than 56% of common five-letter words.
- Vowels: 1 · Different letters: 5 · Repeated letters: None