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Webster 1913 Edition


Draggle-tail

Drag′gle-tailˊ

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Noun.
A slattern who suffers her gown to trail in the mire; a drabble-tail.

Webster 1828 Edition


Draggle-tail

DRAGGLE-TAIL

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Noun.
A slut.

Definition 2024


draggle-tail

draggle-tail

English

Noun

draggle-tail (plural draggle-tails)

  1. (largely archaic) A **** or slattern; a slovenly woman.
    • 2010, Alexander Granach, Herbert Lewis, From the Shtetl to the Stage: The Odyssey of a Wandering Actor, page 133:
      It was a long canting monologue, which ended with, "And a lady is just what you are not — you don't even wear under-drawers, you draggle-tail!" Whereupon in her fury she lifted her skirts and showed me that she did wear underdrawers.

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References

  • draggle-tail in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913