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Meanings of draggle in English

Catalan
moll
Spanish
pringar

Make wet and dirty, as from rain.

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        Usage of draggle in English
        1
        The very dogs would have chased such a draggle-tailed beauty from the grounds.
        Tales of a Traveller
        2
        How foolish to draggle that mazarin blue poplinette in sloppy snow!
        Bluebell / A Novel
        3
        A draggle-tailed woman stepped to a door and threw out a pan of dish-water.
        Hillsboro People
        4
        Still, somewhere under the huddle and draggle of it all burned on the human soul.
        The Way of a Man
        5
        She will not let her dignity draggle in the mud, like others I could name.
        "The Ladies": A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty
        6
        Now and then we draggle on a little militia.
        The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
        7
        Never have I seen such a draggle-tailed divinity.
        London to Ladysmith via Pretoria
        8
        Will none but a draggle-tailed muse suit him?
        Life and Remains of John Clare, The "Northamptonshire Peasant Po...
        9
        I have nothing to do with such milk-sop organizations, or the donkeys that draggle at their heels.
        Eventide / A Series of Tales and Poems
        10
        She saw close to the wall some few yards away a somewhat draggle-tail figure in cloak and hood.
        Madame Flirt / A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'
        11
        All ordinary housekeepers are at the mercy of the filth and insolence of a draggle-tailed, novelette-reading feminine democracy.
        The Whirlpool
        12
        They were down-at-heel, draggle-tailed, and futile.
        Here are Ladies
        13
        Stuck in that rat trap old keep of the duke's with a demon and Tharin's draggle-tailed peasant soldiers?
        The Bone Doll's Twin
        14
        People go by, so drenched and draggle-tailed that I have often wondered how they found the heart to undress.
        Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes
        15
        It will be needful, if it be wet weather, to clip their tails, lest these draggle, and so weaken the bird.
        The Book of Household Management
        16
        Indeed it is beneath them to meddle with such dirty draggle-tails; and whatever happens to them, it is good enough for them.
        History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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        Translations for draggle
        Draggle through the time