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draggletailed

draggletailed is the alternative spelling of draggle-tailed.

Meaning of draggle-tailed

Adjective

draggle-tailed (comparative more draggle-tailed, superlative most draggle-tailed)

  1. (or of clothing) Slatternly, untidy, unkempt.
    • And yet by the way, as one sometime demanded of one of his complices, How it came to pass, that they, who take upon them by the Stars, to tel everie draggle-tail’d Girl that comes to them to enquire after a Silver Spoon lost, what was become of it, and which way it was gone; yet could not by their...1654, Thomas Gataker, A Discours Apologetical, London: Thomas Newberry, page 4

Forms of draggletailed

comparativemore draggletailed
superlativemost draggletailed

Questions about draggletailed

What is draggletailed the alternative spelling of?
Draggletailed is the alternative spelling of draggle-tailed.

Words near draggletailed in the dictionary

  1. draggledness
  2. dragglement
  3. dragglements
  4. draggles
  5. draggletail
  6. draggletailed
  7. draggletailedness
  8. draggletails
  9. draggling
  10. dragglings
  11. draggly

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