draggle

American  

[drag-uhl] / ˈdræg əl /

verb (used with object)

draggled, draggling

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

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verb (used without object)

draggled, draggling

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

2. to follow slowly; straggle.

draggle British  

/ ˈdræɡəl /

verb

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

2. (intr) to lag; dawdle

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Etymology

Origin of draggle

First recorded in 1490–1500; drag + -le

Example Sentences

Much of the uproar, as the U.S. duly noted and compensated for, was due to the fact that the politicians caught in the bloody draggle of Suez needed a scapegoat.

From Time Magazine Archive

As most of the actors draggle through their paces, it is plain that Novac and friends could easily outwit the lot of them.

From Time Magazine Archive

The most splendidly angelic inspirations will not suffice to compensate the poet for feet that draggle in the mud, or stumble higgledy-piggledy among stony words, which his toes should have kissed into jewels.

From Impressions and Comments by Ellis, Havelock

The other forms, such as drabbe, dregg, and dragan, the b and v being analogous to E. draggle, drabble, draught, draft, all equally from dragan.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 by Various

He did not tie him to anything, but merely rested the bridle over the pommel of the saddle, so that it might not draggle upon the ground.

From The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico by Evans, L.