daggle-tailed

English

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Adjective

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

  1. Having the lower ends of garments defiled by trailing in mire or filth; draggle-tailed.
    • Jonathan Swift, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      And first, I am very sensible how much the gentlemen of wit and pleasure are apt to murmur, and be choked at the sight of so many daggle-tailed parsons that happen to fall in their way, and offend their eyes

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for daggle-tailed in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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