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draggle-tailed
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. Oxford English Dictionary
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draggle-tailedness
ˈdraggle-ˌtailedness [-ness.] Draggle-tailed condition or character.1889 E. F. Knight ‘Falcon’ on the Baltic iv. 62 The outrageously bad taste and gaudy draggletailedness of English girls of the same degree. 1904 Westm. Gaz. 2 Nov. 1/3 The terrible draggletailedness of some of the women. Oxford English Dictionary
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draggle-tail
draggle-tail (ˈdræg(ə)lteɪl) [f. draggle v. + tail n.] 1. A draggle-tailed person; a woman whose skirts are wet and draggled, or whose dress hangs about her untidily and dirty; a slut.1596 Nashe Saffron Walden 143 To see a..draggell taile run her taile into a bushe of thornes. 1611 Speed Hist. Gt. B... Oxford English Dictionary
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Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
imagination to run wild in the following days"Fate, he decided, was extending its helping hand to him, through Mariane, to draw him out of that stifling, draggle-tailed wikipedia.org
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daggle-tailed
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 t... Oxford English Dictionary
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draggle-haired
draggle-haired, a. nonce-wd. [f. draggle v. and hair, after draggle-tailed.] With hair hanging wet and untidy.1865 Dickens Mut. Fr. iii. x, Draggle-haired, seamed with jealousy and anger. Oxford English Dictionary
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fiddlecome
† ˈfiddlecome, a. Obs. [short for next, used attrib.] Nonsensical, silly, trumpery.1697 Vanbrugh Relapse iv. i. 103 A fiddlecome tale of a draggle-tailed girl. 1777 Sheridan Trip Scarb. iv. i, Do you think such a fine proper gentleman..cares for a fiddle⁓come tale of a child? Oxford English Dictionary
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traipse
▪ I. traipse, trapes, n. colloq. and dial. (treɪps) Also 9 trapse. [Goes with traipse v., but of later appearance.] 1. An opprobrious name for a woman or girl slovenly in person or habits; ‘a dangling slattern’.1676 Poor Robin's Intell. 11–18 Apr. 2/2 A lazy trapes that cares not how late she sits u... Oxford English Dictionary
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