Draggled
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
draggled
adj 1: limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud; "the beggar's
bedraggled clothes"; "scarecrows in battered hats or
draggled skirts" [syn: {bedraggled}, {draggled}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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