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draggletailedness

draggletailedness noun: the quality of being draggle-tailed.

Noun

draggletailedness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being draggle-tailed.
    • All the outrageously bad taste and gaudy draggletailedness of English girls of the same degree were exactly reproduced. But the drunken ruffianism that would have attended such a gathering in England was altogether absent; […]1889, E. F. Knight, The Falcon on the Baltic

Origin of draggletailedness

From draggle-tailed + -ness.

Questions about draggletailedness

What does draggletailedness mean?
Draggletailedness means the quality of being draggle-tailed.
What part of speech is draggletailedness?
Draggletailedness is a noun.

Words near draggletailedness in the dictionary

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

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