daggled, ppl. a.
(ˈdæg(ə)ld)
[f. daggle v. + -ed1.]
Having the skirts clogged or splashed with dirt or wet; bespattered, bemired.
| 1607 Barley-Breake (1877) 21 What..dagled mayd with payle. 1638 Songs Costume (Percy Soc.) 140 Fringe with gold your daggl'd tails. 1727 Swift Poems, City Shower, To shops in crowds the daggled females fly. 1742 Mrs. Delany Life & Corr. (1861) II. 193 Caught in a smart shower of rain, [we] came home in a fine daggled condition. |
b. Comb. † daggled-tail a. = daggle-tailed.
| 1708 Swift Agst. Abol. Christianity, Shocked at the sight of so many daggled-tail parsons. |