draggle - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

From drag +‎ -le.

• IPA(key): /ˈdɹæɡəl/

draggle (third-person singular simple present draggles, present participle draggling, simple past and past participle draggled)

1. To make, or to become, wet and muddy by dragging along the ground.
   • 1844, Richard Chenevix Trench, “The Herring Fishers of Lockfynk”, in The Story of Justin Martyr: Sabbation and Other Poems:
     […] with draggled nets down-hanging to the tide […]
   • 1883, Adele Marion Fielde, “拖 (thoa)”, in A Pronouncing and Defining Dictionary of the Swatow Dialect, Arranged According to Syllables and Tones, Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, page 593:
     [If] it be too long it draggles on the ground and gets under foot and is very troublesome.

• bedraggle

• bedraggled

• draggle-tail

• draggle-tailed

• gargled, raggled