He had a slow, Southern drawl.
‘Howdy, pardner,’ he said in his slow Texan drawl.
She spoke with a soft Southern drawl.
‘Come in!’ he drawled softly.
• Accent
• Dixie diction
• Dixie diction feature
• Dixie diphthongization
• Dixie talk
• Extend the vowels
• Feature of some American accents
• Good old boy's speech
• Illustrate Latino's primary manner of speaking (5)
• John Wayne had a little one
• Manner of speaking
• Regional twang
• San Antonio slur
• Say with two syllables where one would do, say
• Say y'all, e.g.
• Say y'all, say
• Sign of a Southerner, perhaps
• Song of the South?
• Sound heard on the LBJ ranch
• Southern ___ (rhymes with y'all)
• Southern accent
• Southern accent giveaway, perhaps
• Southern inflection
• Southern speech feature
• Southern speech pattern
• Southern stretch?
• Speak in Dixie?
• Speak like a Southerner
• Speak like Jimmy Stewart
• Speak like Jimmy Stewart, say
• Speak like some Southerners
• Speak sloooowly
• Speak slowly
• Speak slowly and attract listeners, at first (5)
• Speak with lengthened vowels
• Speech mannerism
• Stretch one's diphthongs
• Stretch one's vowels
• Talk like Forrest Gump
• Talk like Jimmy Stewart
• Texas talk
• Trait of Southern speech
• A slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels
протяжное произношение; манерная медлительность речи
2. {drɔ:l} v1. растягивать слова; говорить с манерной медлительностью (тж. ~ out)
2. редк.
1) тянуться, идти томительно медленно
2) тянуть