ˈdraggle-tailed, a.
Having a tail or skirt that trails on the ground in mud and wet.
| 1654 Gataker Disc. Apol. 4 Everie draggle-tail'd Girl that comes to them. 1825 Scott Jrnl. 23 Nov., A draggle-tailed wench. 1831 E. J. Trelawny Adv. Younger Son I. 288 The draggletailed..cockatoo. |