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draggle-tailed

[ drag-uhl-teyld ]

adjective

  1. untidy; bedraggled; slovenly.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of draggle-tailed1

First recorded in 1645–55; draggle-tail + -ed 3
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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.

No one knew of it save Bough Van Busch and the draggle-tailed woman.

In the midst of it, the Crows noticed a Monkey sliding along, drenched and draggle-tailed, looking like a drowned Rat.

People go by, so drenched and draggle-tailed that I have often wondered how they found the heart to undress.

The Pink Moir Antique was torn into a draggle-tailed pink train.

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