draggle

English

Etymology

From drag +‎ -le.

Verb

draggle (third-person singular simple present draggles, present participle draggling, simple past and past participle draggled)

To make, or to become, wet and muddy by dragging along the ground.
- 1844, Richard Chenevix Trench, The Story of Justin Martyr: Sabbation and Other Poems, "The Herring Fishers of Lockfynk":
  […] with draggled nets down-hanging to the tide […]
- 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Chapter 22”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, OCLC 3174108:
  The rain drove into the bride and bridegroom's faces as they passed to the chariot. The postilions' favours draggled on their dripping jackets.
- 1883, Fielde, Adele Marion, “拖 (thoa)”, in A Pronouncing and Defining Dictionary of the Swatow Dialect, Arranged According to Syllables and Tones, Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, page 593:
  [If] it be too long it draggles on the ground and gets under foot and is very troublesome.

Derived terms

bedraggled
draggle-tail
draggle-tailed

Anagrams

gargled, raggled

单词	draggle
释义	draggle English Etymology From drag +‎ -le. Verb draggle (third-person singular simple present draggles, present participle draggling, simple past and past participle draggled) To make, or to become, wet and muddy by dragging along the ground. 1844, Richard Chenevix Trench, The Story of Justin Martyr: Sabbation and Other Poems, "The Herring Fishers of Lockfynk": […] with draggled nets down-hanging to the tide […] 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Chapter 22”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, OCLC 3174108: The rain drove into the bride and bridegroom's faces as they passed to the chariot. The postilions' favours draggled on their dripping jackets. 1883, Fielde, Adele Marion, “拖 (thoa)”, in A Pronouncing and Defining Dictionary of the Swatow Dialect, Arranged According to Syllables and Tones, Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, page 593: [If] it be too long it draggles on the ground and gets under foot and is very troublesome. Derived terms bedraggled draggle-tail draggle-tailed Anagrams gargled, raggled
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