daggle
Americanverb (used with or without object)
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of daggle
1520–30; dag to bemire + -le
Example Sentences
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Nothing in the fast-moving U. S. has so dawdled and daggled as rail road consolidation -except possibly Prohibition enforcement.
From Time Magazine Archive
The warrior's very plume, I say Was daggled by the dashing spray; Yet, through good heart, and Our Ladye's grace, At length he gain'd the landing place.
From From John O'Groats to Land's End by Robert Naylor
Pope has, "A puppy, daggled through the town."
From The Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift
The warrior's very plume, I say Was daggled by the dashing spray: Yet, through good heart, and Our Ladye's grace, At length he gained the landing place.
From In the Saddle A Collection of Poems on Horseback-Riding by Various
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