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daggle-tails

daggle-tails is the plural of daggle-tail.

Meaning of daggle-tail

Noun

daggle-tail (plural daggle-tails)

  1. (archaic) 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
  2. (attributive, obsolete, often) 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

Questions about daggle-tails

What is daggle-tails the plural of?
Daggle-tails is the plural of daggle-tail.

Words near daggle-tails in the dictionary

  1. dagging out
  2. daggings
  3. daggle
  4. daggle-tail
  5. daggle-tailed
  6. daggle-tails
  7. daggled
  8. daggles
  9. daggling
  10. daggone
  11. daggonest

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