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单词 daggle-tailed
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daggle-tailedadj.

/ˈdaɡ(ə)lteɪld/
Forms: see daggle v. and tailed adj.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: daggle v., tailed adj.1
Etymology: < daggle v. + tailed adj.1 Compare daggle-tail n., and also later draggle-tail n.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
Having the skirts splashed by being trailed over wet ground; untidy, slatternly. (Usually of a woman.) Now draggle-tailed adj.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > [adjective] > muddy > dirty by trailing in mud
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1573 G. Harvey Schollers Loove in Let.-bk. (1884) 125 A nobeler witt Then that daggiltayld skitt.
1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well III. vii. 186 To make love to..some daggle-tailed soubrette.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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