d 2 r 1 a 1 w 4 l 1
5 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels
verb lengthen and slow down or draw out
originFrom a modern frequentative form of draw, equivalent to draw + -le. Compare draggle. Compare also Dutch dralen (“to drag out, delay, linger, tarry, dawdle”), Old Danish dravle (“to linger, loiter”), Icelandic dralla (“to loiter, linger”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0