Ääntäminen
Southern England:
- UK:
- US:
- cot-caught:
Haettu sana löytyi näillä lähdekielillä:
Määritelmät
Verbi
- (transitive) To drag on slowly and heavily; to dawdle or while 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; to move in a dull, slow, lazy manner.
- (intransitive) To speak with a slow, spiritless utterance, as from affectation, laziness, or lack of interest.
Substantiivi
- A 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.
Esimerkit
- Theologians and moralists [...] talk mostly in a drawling and dreaming way about it.
Taivutusmuodot