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Quotation dates: 1829-1836
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†DRAWLIE, -(E)Y, adj. “Slow. and at the same time slovenly” (Lnk. 1825 Jam.2), incompetent.Sc. 1829 Blackwood's Mag. XXVl. 962:
For the painter to illustrate the work of the poet or proser, be it drawly or divine.Sc. 1836 M. Scott Tom Cringle (1854) xii.:
The old Don . . . so sedate and drawley as he was a minute before.
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