Draggled

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Draggle \Drag"gle\ (dr[a^]g"g'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Draggled}
     (dr[a^]g"g'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Draggling}
     (dr[a^]g"gl[i^]ng).] [Freq. of drag. [root]73. Cf. {Drawl}.]
     To wet and soil by dragging on the ground, mud, or wet grass;
     to drabble; to trail. --Gray.
     [1913 Webster]


  
           With draggled nets down-hanging to the tide. --Trench.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  draggled \draggled\ adj.
     limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud.
  
     Syn: bedraggled.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  draggled
       adj : limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud; "the beggar's
             bedraggled clothes"; "scarecrows in battered hats or
             draggled skirts" [syn: {bedraggled}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  55 Moby Thesaurus words for "draggled":
     beat-up, bedraggled, befouled, besmirched, blowzy, careless,
     chintzy, defiled, dilapidated, dirtied, drabbled, drabbletailed,
     draggletailed, fouled, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, grubby, in rags,
     informal, loose, lumpen, messy, mussy, negligent, poky, ragged,
     raggedy, ruinous, scraggly, seedy, shabby, shoddy, slack,
     slatternly, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, smirched,
     smudged, soiled, sordid, spotted, squalid, stained, sullied, tacky,
     tainted, tarnished, tattered, unkempt, unneat, unsightly, untidy