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daggles

daggles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of daggle.

Meaning of daggle

Verb

daggle (third-person singular simple present daggles, present participle daggling, simple past and past participle daggled)

  1. (intransitive) To drag or trail through water, mud, or slush
    • I ne'r vvith VVits and VVitlings paſt my days, / To ſpread about the Itch of Verſe and Praiſe, / Nor like a Puppy daggled thro' the Tovvn, / To fetch and carry Sing-ſong up and dovvn; […]1735 January 13 (Gregorian calendar; indicated as 1734), [Alexander] Pope, An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot, London: […] J[ohn] Wright for Lawton Gilliver […], →OCLC, page 12, lines 218–221
    Synonyms:
    draggle
  2. (transitive) To trail, so as to make wet or muddy.
    • The warrior's very plume, I say, / Was daggled by the dashing spray.1805, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: […] [James Ballantyne] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], and A[rchibald] Constable and Co....
  3. To dangle or wag.

Questions about daggles

What is daggles the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Daggles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of daggle.

Words near daggles in the dictionary

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

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