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单词 draggle
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dragglen.

Etymology: < draggle v.
rare.
1. The action of draggling.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > [noun] > slow movement or progress
dragglinga1599
slaggering1622
drag1813
creep1818
dawdling1819
loitering1822
draggle1894
1894 S. A. Brooke Tennyson x. 330 The dull coarseness and the draggle of the last days of luxury and adultery.
2. One who draggles. Scottish.
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1806 J. Train Poet. Reveries 64 (Jam.) To her came a rewayl'd draggle.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

dragglev.

/ˈdraɡ(ə)l/
Forms: Also (Middle English ? drakel), 1500s–1700s dragle, 1500s–1800s Scottish draigle.
Etymology: Not certainly known before 16th cent.; apparently diminutive and frequentative of drag v.: compare waggle , and see -le suffix.
1. transitive. To wet or befoul (a garment, etc.) by allowing it to drag through mire or wet grass, or to hang untidily in the rain; to make wet, limp, and dirty.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > dirty or soil with specific kinds of dirt [verb (transitive)] > dirty with mud > dirty by trailing in mud
bedaga1300
belaga1300
bedrabblec1440
drabblec1440
dag1484
draggle1513
daggle1530
bedaggle1580
bedabble1600
bedraggle1727
1499 Promptorium Parvulorum 129/2 Drabelyn (drakelyn, Pynson), paludo, traunlimo (sic).]
1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid vii. Prol. 76 Puire laboraris and byssy husband men Went wayt and wery draglyt in the fen.
a1605 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart 361 Draiglit throw dirtie dubes and dykes.
a1605 A. Montgomerie Sonnets (1887) lxvi Draiglit in dirt.
1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer v. 94 Draggled up to the waist.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vii. xi. 402 The wet day draggles the tricolor.
1880 T. E. Webb tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust Pref. ii. 18 If she falls, she is not draggled in the mire.
2. To drag or trail (through the dirt). Obsolete.
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (transitive)] > pull > about > through mud or dirt
daggle1681
draggle1714
dag1869
1714 C. Johnson Country Lasses ii. i Here you have dragled me a long way.
1723 State of Russia II. 79 They take it by the Tail, and draggle it thrice round the Idol.
3. intransitive (for reflexive). To trail (on the ground), hang trailing. So †to draggle it.
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the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > hang or be suspended [verb (intransitive)] > hang down > trailingly
trikea1350
trilla1400
trailc1412
train1584
dragglec1594
tag1617
traipsea1777
streel1847
trape1875
c1594 in Pollen Acts Eng. Martyrs (1891) 333 On the hurdle..one of his legs draggled on the ground as he was drawn.
c1660 A. Wood Life (1891) I. 300 Masters gownes long, dragling on the ground.
1775 S. J. Pratt Liberal Opinions (1783) IV. 16 [Man] draggles it on foot upon the polluted earth.
1815 Countess Granville Let. 5 Sept. (1894) I. 78 Flounces draggling.
1859 G. W. Dasent tr. P.C. Asbjørnsen & J. Moe Pop. Tales from Norse 356 Such..long wool, it hung down and draggled after him on the ground.
4. intransitive. To come on or follow slowly and in a straggling train.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > move or go slowly [verb (intransitive)]
creepc1175
lugc1400
to hold (also keep) foot withc1438
crawlc1460
lounge?a1513
slug1565
drawl1566
draggle1577
fodge1581
snail1582
laggerc1620
slagger1622
snail1628
flod1674
delay1690
to drag one’s slow length along1711
soss1711
loiter1728
trail1744
sidle1781
soodle1821
linger1826
ooze1847
slope1851
laggard1864
dawdle1872
tiddle1882
oozle1958
pootle1973
the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > following behind > follow behind [verb (intransitive)] > follow slowly
draga1513
draggle1577
drail1598
lag1651
1577 M. Hanmer tr. Evagrius Scholasticus iv. 477 in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. 477 The espies came draglinge after in beggers weede and base attyre.
a1599 R. Rollock Sel. Wks. (1844) II. xxxii. 389 He that draigled behind will be before thee.
1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. II. vi. v. 118 With heavy hearts they draggled at the heels of his troop.
1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 205 Some beasts of burden which had lagged behind..came draggling in one after the other.

Derivatives

ˈdraggling n. and adj.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > [noun] > slow movement or progress
dragglinga1599
slaggering1622
drag1813
creep1818
dawdling1819
loitering1822
draggle1894
the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > [adjective] > moving slowly
slowa1398
slow-movingc1450
slow-bellied1554
lazya1568
slow-footed1587
slow-paced1594
leaden-footed1596
snaily1596
snail-paced1597
dragglinga1599
leaden-heeled1598
ambling1600
slow-foot1607
sluggisha1616
slow-pacing1616
tortoise-paced1623
slow-going1634
leaden-stepping1645
tardigradous1652
tardigrade1656
snail-crawleda1658
dawdling1773
loitering1791–2
slow-stepping1793
creepy1794
lugging1816
tortoise-footed1818
crawling1820
creepy-crawly1858
slowing1877
lead-foot1896
soodling1951
the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [adjective] > hanging down > trailingly
trailinga1400
swooping1581
dragglinga1599
training1645
streeling1841
traily1902
a1599 R. Rollock Sel. Wks. (1844) II. xxxii. 389 A draigling person.
a1599 R. Rollock Sel. Wks. (1844) II. xxxii. 389 He or she that will persevere in draigling.
1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 34 His dragling Tail hung in the Dirt.
1840 W. M. Thackeray George Cruikshank (1869) 304 My lady with the ermine tippet and draggling feather.
1886 Manch. Examiner 6 Jan. 5/2 After the Speaker is chosen, several days will pass in draggling fashion.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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