draggle
verb/ˈdɹæɡəl/
Etymology From drag + -le.
1
To make, or to become, wet and muddy by dragging along the ground.
- […] with draggled nets down-hanging to the tide […]1844, Richard Chenevix Trench, “The Herring Fishers of Lockfynk”, in The Story of Justin Martyr: Sabbation and Other Poems:
- The rain drove into the bride and bridegroom's faces as they passed to the chariot. The postilions' favours draggled on their dripping jackets.1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Chapter 22”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
1 more example
- [If] it be too long it draggles on the ground and gets under foot and is very troublesome.1883, Adele Marion Fielde, “拖 (thoa)”, in A pronouncing and defining dictionary of the Swatow dialect, arranged according to syllables and tones, Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, page 593:
- Derived terms
- bedraggle, bedraggled, draggle-tail, draggle-tailed