draggle

[ drag-uhl ]
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verb (used with object),drag·gled, drag·gling.
  1. to soil by dragging over damp ground or in mud.

verb (used without object),drag·gled, drag·gling.
  1. to trail on the ground; be or become draggled.

  2. to follow slowly; straggle.

Origin of draggle

1
First recorded in 1490–1500; drag + -le

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How to use draggle in a sentence

  • The party was made up of a ferret-faced man with a red nose, a draggle-tailed woman, and a child in a crazy perambulator.

    Huntingtower | John Buchan
  • I have nothing to do with such milk-sop organizations, or the donkeys that draggle at their heels.

    Eventide | Effie Afton
  • No one knew of it save Bough Van Busch and the draggle-tailed woman.

    The Dop Doctor | Clotilde Inez Mary Graves
  • A few feet from the coach the water appeared to deepen, and the bear-skin to draggle.

  • She hasn't a penny, and goes about tattered, a draggle-tail, and sells her birthright for a handful of cold potatoes.

    Stories and Pictures | Isaac Loeb Peretz

British Dictionary definitions for draggle

draggle

/ (ˈdræɡəl) /


verb
  1. to make or become wet or dirty by trailing on the ground; bedraggle

  2. (intr) to lag; dawdle

Origin of draggle

1
C16: probably frequentative of drag

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