draggle-tail
nounEtymology
From draggle (“to make wet and muddy by dragging along the ground”) + tail. Implying that such a person's gown trailed in the mire or along the ground.
Definitions
A slut or slattern
A slut or slattern; a slovenly woman.
- 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.
Dirty, untidy, ragtag.
- You notice that across the lawn the coppice looks not so wind-beaten and draggletail as it did a while ago.
- —words spliced to form draggletail phrases met by brittle conjunctions– We two are poorly bound
- Dirty, draggletail, it was nevertheless an important street […]
The neighborhood
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA