daggle
English
Etymology
dag + -le
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdæɡəl/
Verb
daggle (third-person singular simple present daggles, present participle daggling, simple past and past participle daggled)
- (intransitive) To run, go, or trail oneself through water, mud, or slush; to draggle.
- Alexander Pope
- Nor, like a puppy [have I] daggled through the town.
- Alexander Pope
- (transitive) To trail, so as to wet or befoul; to make wet and limp; to moisten.
- Sir Walter Scott
- The warrior's very plume, I say, / Was daggled by the dashing spray.
- Sir Walter Scott
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for daggle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- lagged