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daggling

daggling is the present participle and gerund 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 daggling

What is daggling the present participle and gerund of?
Daggling is the present participle and gerund of daggle.

Words near daggling in the dictionary

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

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