draggled

Definitions

1. 1

   simple past and past participle of draggle

2. 2

   Soiled and wet as by dragging in the mud.

   • Then wet umbrellas began to appear, draggled skirts, and mud.
   • They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the bank—the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close to them, and all dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable.
3. 3

   Having a limp, miserable, dilapidated appearance

   Having a limp, miserable, dilapidated appearance; bedraggled.

   • Under the portico, with its grey sun-bleached pillars, loitered a troop of draggled bareheaded girls, waiting for the auction to be over.
   • Here, in front, the deserted street was white and black and silent, under the electric lamps. All the lonelier for two wretched gamins, counting their dirty sous, and draggled newspapers.

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