draggle

[drag-uhl]

verb (used with object)

draggled, draggling 

1. to soil by dragging over damp ground or in mud.

verb (used without object)

draggled, draggling 

1. to trail on the ground; be or become draggled.

2. to follow slowly; straggle.

draggle

/ ˈdræɡəl /

verb

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

2. (intr) to lag; dawdle

Word History and Origins

Origin of draggle¹

First recorded in 1490–1500; drag + -le

Word History and Origins

Origin of draggle¹

C16: probably frequentative of _drag

Example Sentences

“We had to grow,” Alexandra hissed as she propped herself against the terminal, her dark hair a curtain draggling before her as she hung her head.

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Slowly the sky above grew lighter, and then suddenly the clouds broke, and their draggled fringes trailed away northward up the River.

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He could scarcely believe the sight before him—Rome’s beautiful princess, her hair dirty, tangled, and uncombed, her clothes draggled and torn, her face thin and wild.

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There’s a straggly line of people, adults and children, along the roadside among the draggled weeds.

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The mammoth is waist high, with a pelt of dirty-blond fur that hangs in tangled draggles to the dirt.

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