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draggle
[ drag-uhl ]
verb (used without object)
- to trail on the ground; be or become draggled.
- to follow slowly; straggle.
draggle
/ ˈdræɡəl /
verb
- to make or become wet or dirty by trailing on the ground; bedraggle
- intr to lag; dawdle
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Word History and Origins
Origin of draggle1
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Example Sentences
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.
I have nothing to do with such milk-sop organizations, or the donkeys that draggle at their heels.
No one knew of it save Bough Van Busch and the draggle-tailed woman.
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.
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