Drawed

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Informal past tense of draw, used in some dialects in place of the standard drew to mean pulled, sketched or took out
2. A nonstandard simple past form of the verb draw, often heard in casual or regional speech instead of drew
3. Dialectal past tense of the verb draw, typically used in informal speech to describe having pulled, sketched or taken something out

Etymology: "Drawed" is the regular past tense of "draw," the verb meaning to pull something along or out. "Draw" descends from Old English "dragan," which meant to carry, haul, or drag, and its ancestor sits in the Proto-Germanic "draganą," meaning to carry, draw, or pull. The same stem gives German "tragen" (to bear or carry) and Dutch "dragen" (to carry or wear), so the modern sense of hauling along has a close relative in the idea of simply bearing a load. Those older meanings show how the verb got its breadth. Middle English uses already covered pulling, leading, attracting, and enticing, and the sense of making marks with a pen or pencil came later. "Drag" and "draught" are doublets of "draw," meaning they come from the same ancestor but reached English by different routes. The strong past tense "drew" is the traditional form, and "drawed" is the regularized version that speakers produce by analogy with verbs such as "showed" and "knowed."