daggle-tailed

comparative more daggle-tailed · superlative most daggle-tailed

1. obsoleteHaving the lower ends of clothes dirty due to them trailing in mud or other filth.

   Synonyms: draggle-tailed

2. obsoleteOf low class or ill repute

   Hal - this awkward Scotch laird, that has scarce tact enough to make love to a ewe-milker, or, at best, to some daggle-tailed soubrette

   1823 December 23 (indicated as 1824), [Walter Scott], St Ronan’s Well. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC

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   And first, I am very sensible how much the gentlemen of wit and pleasure are apt to murmur, and be choked at the sight of so many daggle-tailed parsons that happen to fall in their way, and offend their eyes

   1708, Jonathan Swift, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity