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draggle-tailed

adj
/ˈdɹæɡl̩ˌteɪld/

Etymology

Taken from draggle (“net drawn along the bottom of the water for fishing”), this was originally applied to women whose dresses dragged along the ground behind them.

Definitions

  1. Slatternly, untidy, unkempt.

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