draggle
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
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to trail on the ground; be or become draggled.
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to follow slowly; straggle.
verb
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to make or become wet or dirty by trailing on the ground; bedraggle
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(intr) to lag; dawdle
Etymology
Origin of draggle
Example Sentences
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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
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
How foolish to draggle that mazarin blue poplinette in sloppy snow!
From Bluebell A Novel by Huddleston, Mrs. George Croft
I have nothing to do with such milk-sop organizations, or the donkeys that draggle at their heels.
From Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems by Afton, Effie
The nice old maid near him turns away in disgust when she sees his moustaches draggle in the soup.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 by Various
He cut a short pole at the water’s edge and drew from one of his pockets a bit of line and a draggled fly that had once been a royal coachman.
From Slate ● Nov. 25, 2018
Fifteen months later, a battered, be draggled ghost ship, the Wolf again dodged through the British blockade and limped home to her base.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks
There’s a straggly line of people, adults and children, along the roadside among the draggled weeds.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
Slowly the sky above grew lighter, and then suddenly the clouds broke, and their draggled fringes trailed away northward up the River.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
“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.
From The Verge ● Feb. 13, 2019
Brooding over them is the gaunt figure of the Gravedigger Captain in his draggling coat, explaining to Adam Ember that he took the job because he wanted to be on the side of victory.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nowhere, until you have got it draggling in the mud at the foot.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI by Maclaren, Alexander
In spite of the draggling wet and clinging mud, the country people were out in force; but their gapes, their nudges and whispers, were as little to him as the falling rain.
From Checkers A Hard-luck Story by Blossom, Henry M.
On an afternoon at this time a young girl entered the stone-mason's yard with some hesitation, and, lifting her skirts to avoid draggling them in the white dust, crossed towards the office.
From Jude the Obscure by Hardy, Thomas
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