draggle

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English

Etymology

From drag +‎ -le.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdɹæɡəl/
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Verb

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

  1. To make, or to become, wet and muddy by dragging along the ground.
    • 1844, Richard Chenevix Trench, “The Herring Fishers of Lockfynk”, in The Story of Justin Martyr: Sabbation and Other Poems:
      […] 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:
      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, Adele Marion Fielde, “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.

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