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dragglement

dragglement noun: the condition of something that is draggled.

Noun

dragglement (countable and uncountable, plural dragglements)

  1. The condition of something that is draggled.
  2. Something that is draggled.
    • This is Henry sneering at the town and its dregs and dragglements, as he did at New York in his letters and his journals, not, I should say, Thoreau sneering at democracy.1943, Henry Seidel Canby, Walt Whitman: An American (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1943, p. 154)

Forms of dragglement

pluraldragglements

Origin of dragglement

draggle + -ment

Questions about dragglement

What does dragglement mean?
Dragglement means the condition of something that is draggled.
What part of speech is dragglement?
Dragglement is a noun.
What is the plural of dragglement?
The plural of dragglement is dragglements.

Words near dragglement in the dictionary

  1. draggle-tail
  2. draggle-tailed
  3. draggle-tails
  4. draggled
  5. draggledness
  6. dragglement
  7. dragglements
  8. draggles
  9. draggletail
  10. draggletailed
  11. draggletailedness

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