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
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 L. Evans
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 Effie Afton
The Sunflower Ranch needs my talents, so I can’t go with the crowd, but I may draggle in about high noon.
From Winning the Wilderness by J. N. Marchand
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
Wart draggled off to the tower room, where Merlyn was busy knitting himself a woollen night-cap for the winter.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
White flowers whirled like snow and her draggled hair streamed back from her face as she squinted against the draft.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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
The wolf, with the sheep's clothing draggling about his legs, could not run fast, and was detected and shot by one of the men.
From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by William Makepeace Thackeray
He wore the same gown five years without draggling or tearing.
From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1 by Jonathan Swift
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 Henry M. Blossom
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