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draggling

draggling is the present participle and gerund of draggle.

Meaning of draggle

Verb

draggle (third-person singular simple present draggles, present participle draggling, simple past and past participle draggled)

  1. To make, or to become, wet and muddy by dragging along the ground.
    • […] with draggled nets down-hanging to the tide […]1844, Richard Chenevix Trench, “The Herring Fishers of Lockfynk”, in The Story of Justin Martyr: Sabbation and Other Poems

Noun

draggling (countable and uncountable, plural dragglings)

  1. The act of something being draggled.

Forms of draggling

pluraldragglings

Questions about draggling

What does draggling mean?
Draggling means the act of something being draggled.
What is draggling the present participle and gerund of?
Draggling is the present participle and gerund of draggle.
What part of speech is draggling?
Draggling is a noun.
What is the plural of draggling?
The plural of draggling is dragglings.

Words near draggling in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: draggling (page history and authors); draggle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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