draggled

Adjective

draggled (comparative more draggled, superlative most draggled)

1. Soiled and wet as by dragging in the mud.
   • Then wet umbrellas began to appear, draggled skirts, and mud.1857, Charles Dickens, chapter 3, in Little Dorrit, Book I
   • They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the bank—the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close to them, and all dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable.1865, Lewis Carroll, chapter 3, in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
2. Having a limp, miserable, dilapidated appearance; bedraggled.
   • It was near ten at night, when we entered the auberge in such a draggled and miserable condition, that Mrs. Vanini almost fainted at sight of us, on the supposition that we had met with some terrible disaster, and that the rest of the company were killed.1765, Tobias Smollett, Travels Through France and Italy, Letter 34, Nice, 2 April, 1765
   • Under the portico, with its grey sun-bleached pillars, loitered a troop of draggled bareheaded girls, waiting for the auction to be over.1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter VII, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 131