† ˈdriggle-draggle Obs. exc. dial.
[Reduplicated f. draggle v., with vowel-alternation: cf. dingle-dangle, etc.]
A slut, slattern, drab. Also attrib., slatternly.
| 1588 Fraunce Lawiers Log. i. vi. 33 b, If there be any driggle draggle in Shrewsbury. 1593 Tell-Troth's N.Y. Gift 14 Those driggell draggells (whose wicked and lascivious lives have wasted their bodies). 1611 Florio, Zaccara, a driggle-draggle strumpet. 1888 Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk., Driggle-draggle, adv. and sb., in a slovenly, slatternly manner—specially applied to women's dress; also as an epithet. |