daggle-tail
daggle-tail noun: a slovenly woman; a slattern; a draggle-tail.
Noun
daggle-tail (plural daggle-tails)
- A slovenly woman; a slattern; a draggle-tail.
- for she was no daggle-tail I will be bound, but as neat a lass as Sarah o ' Richard's, every bit.1862, Tim Bobbin, John Corry, The Works of Tim Bobbin, Esq: In Prose and Verse, page 513
- He co'de her a mismanner't daggle-tail, —- an ' a mawkin', — an' a daffockin', sloppety sliven, an' an ill-contrive't snicketty fussock, -an' sich like.1883, Edwin Waugh, The chimney corner
- Clothes that are filthy at the bottom from dragging through the mud.
- This fact admitted of gentlemen of wit and pleasure murmuring, and being shocked at the sight of so many daggle-tail parsons, who happened to fall in their way , and offend their eyes ;1708, Jonathan Swift, Arguments against the Abolition of Christianity
- He says, —- come and dine here as soon as you can; With your haily, gaily, Gambo raily, Giggling, niggling, galloping Galloway Daggle tail dreary dun.1795, “Mr. Harris' Musical Farce”, in The Tomahawk! or, Censor general, volume 1, number 113, page 289
Examples of daggle-tail in a sentence
- "Daggle-tail,” Emrys replied with a cheeky grin.2018, Jennifer Silverwood, Silver Hollow, page 173:
- Do you have a daggle-tail's drawers stuffed in your ears?2019, Alex Gardiner, Mossbelly MacFearsome and the Dwarves of Doom:
- He shouldn't be kept waiting by a daggle-tail such as you.2021, Eleanor Porter, The Good Wife:
- And rather than she wou'd take up her Coat, With such a shameless Daggle-tail did trot, To keep her Followers from fight provoking Of blew, of russet, or of yellow Stocking?1924, William Wycherley, Montague Summers, “Hero and Leander”, in Miscellany poems concluded:
Forms of daggle-tail
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Questions about daggle-tail
- What does daggle-tail mean?
- Daggle-tail means a slovenly woman; a slattern; a draggle-tail.
- How do you use daggle-tail in a sentence?
- "Daggle-tail,” Emrys replied with a cheeky grin.
- What part of speech is daggle-tail?
- Daggle-tail is a noun.
- What is the plural of daggle-tail?
- The plural of daggle-tail is daggle-tails.
Words near daggle-tail in the dictionary
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