daggle-tailed, a. Obs. exc. dial.
(ˈdæg(ə)lteɪld)
Having the skirts splashed by being trailed over wet ground; untidy, slatternly. (Usually of a woman.) Now draggle-tailed.
| 1573 G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 125 A nobeler witt Then that daggiltayld skitt. 1824 Scott St. Ronan's xxxiii, To make love to..some daggletailed soubrette. |