| 单词 |
daggle-tail |
| 释义 |
daggle-tail, n. Obs. exc. dial.|ˈdæg(ə)lteɪl| A person (esp. a woman) whose garments are bemired by being trailed over wet ground; an untidy woman, slut, slattern. Now draggle-tail.
1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 1098/2 Vpon their ioining with the queens soldiors, the one part could not be discerned from the other, but onelie by the mire and durt..which stacke vpon their garments..wherefore the crie on the queenes part..was; Downe with the daggle tailes. 1674–91Ray S. & E. C. Words 95, Daggle-tail..a Woman that hath dabbled her Coats with Dew, Wet or Dirt. 1881Leicestersh. Gloss., Daggle-tail, a slut..‘Doll Daggle-teel’. |

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