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.

Synonyms

• drabble-tail

References

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