Synonyms for draggle
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : drag-uh l |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈdræg əl |
Définition of draggle
Origin :- 1510s, frequentative of drag (v.). This led to draggle-tail "sloppy woman, woman whose skirts are wet and draggled" (1590s). Related: Draggled.
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- It goes right hard with her to draggle her skirts in the dewy strawberry beds; but she feels consoled when I fetch up the till!
- Extract from : « Idle Hour Stories » by Eugenia Dunlap Potts
- She feels it due to this same principle to draggle her skirts through the mud, to get her feet wet, and to come home an "object."
- Extract from : « The Champagne Standard » by Mrs. John Lane
- A few feet from the coach the water appeared to deepen, and the bear-skin to draggle.
- Extract from : « Jeff Briggs's Love Story » by Bret Harte
- I have nothing to do with such milk-sop organizations, or the donkeys that draggle at their heels.
- Extract from : « Eventide » by Effie Afton
- Still, somewhere under the huddle and draggle of it all burned on the human soul.
- Extract from : « The Way of a Man » by Emerson Hough
Antonyms for draggle
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