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Definition of Draggled
1. Adjective. Limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud. "Scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts"
Definition of Draggled
1. Verb. (past of draggle) ¹
2. Adjective. bedraggled ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Draggled
1. draggle [v] - See also: draggle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Draggled
Literary usage of Draggled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Young Lady's Friend by John Farrar (1838)
"draggled Clothes. Behaviour at Church. THE admirable institution of Lyceum lectures
should be held in great esteem by women, if it were only for the good ..."
2. The Land of Fetish by Alfred Burdon Ellis (1883)
"... Assin—draggled Plumes— An Unintentional Insult—A Scientific Experiment—The
Palaver at Elmina—Our future Policy—Recent Explorations on the River Volta. ..."
3. London Pictures: Drawn with Pen and Pencil. With One Hundred and Thirty by Richard Lovett (1890)
"... and impressiveness about them which not even their draggled features and faded,
moth-eaten garments, laden with the dust of centuries, can efface. ..."
4. A Summer's Jaunt Across the Water by John Jay Smith (1846)
"... of flowers—Mrs. Lawrence's tent—Holly hedge—Number present—Rain—draggled
visiters—Sir John Rennie's Conversazione— Civil engineers—The company—Bishop of ..."
5. Stella Maris by William John Locke (1913)
"One morning she sat warmly wrapped up, a fur toque on her head, in the pale autumn
sunshine, with Constable by her side, when a draggled-tailed woman, ..."
6. The Constitutional and Political History of the United States by Hermann Von Holst, John Joseph Lalor, Ira Hutchinson Brainerd (1892)
"... boasted that his vote would " never be draggled in the Lecompton mire;"1 and
yet he now belonged to the majority of one hundred and twelve by which the ..."
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