daggle
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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Etymology
Origin of daggle
1520–30; dag to bemire + -le
Example Sentences
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Nothing in the fast-moving U. S. has so dawdled and daggled as rail road consolidation -except possibly Prohibition enforcement.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pope has, "A puppy, daggled through the town."
From The Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift
The warrior's very plume, I say Was daggled by the dashing spray; Yet, through good heart, and Our Ladye's grace, At length he gain'd the landing place.
From From John O'Groats to Land's End by Robert Naylor
The warrior's very plume, I say Was daggled by the dashing spray: Yet, through good heart, and Our Ladye's grace, At length he gained the landing place.
From In the Saddle A Collection of Poems on Horseback-Riding by Various
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