daggledadj.
/ˈdaɡ(ə)ld/ Having the skirts clogged or splashed with dirt or wet; bespattered, bemired.
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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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1607 W. N. Barley-breake sig. C3 What..dagled mayd with payle?
1638 Songs Costume (Percy Soc.) 140 Fringe with gold your daggl'd tails.
1710 J. Swift in J. Swift & R. Steele Tatler No. 238 To shops in crowds the daggled females fly.
1742 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) II. 193 Caught in a smart shower of rain, [we] came home in a fine daggled condition.
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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
drabbledc1440
dagged1484
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bedraggled1824
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traipsed1884
1711 J. Swift Argument abolishing Christianity in Misc. Prose & Verse 174 Choqued at the sight of so many daggled-tail Parsons.
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adj.1607- keep one's fingers crossed
- keep one's fingers on the pulse
- keep one's fire
- keep one's ground
- keep one's hair on
- keep one's hand in
- keep one's hand in use
- keep one's hand on one's halfpenny
- keep one's head
- keep one's head above water
- keep one's head down
- keep one's head together
- keep one's house
- keep one's legs
- keep one's luff
- keep one's maidenhead
- keep one's mansion
- keep one's marriage
- keep one's maundy
- keep one's mind on
- keep one's mouth shut
- keep one's name on the boards
- keep one's nose clean
- keep one's nose out
- keep one's nose to the grindstone