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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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 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
How foolish to draggle that mazarin blue poplinette in sloppy snow!
From Bluebell A Novel by Mrs. George Croft Huddleston
To draggle; to soil, as garments which, in walking, are suffered to drag in dust, mud, etc.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
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
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
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
“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
Don't desecrate the verb to love by draggling it more than it has already been draggled through all the grammars of every European language.
From Strange Stories by Grant Allen
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
My lady with the ermine tippet and draggling feather, can we not see that she lives in Portland Place, and is the wife of an East India Director?
From George Cruikshank by William Makepeace Thackeray
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