单词 | draggle-tail |
释义 | draggle-tailn. 1. A draggle-tailed person; a woman whose skirts are wet and draggled, or whose dress hangs about her untidily and dirty; a slut. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty person > [noun] > woman or girl slut1402 dawa1500 drab?1518 dawkin1565 suss?1565 mab1568 drassock1573 daggle-tail1577 drossel1581 driggle-draggle1588 draggle-tail1596 soss1611 slatternc1640 slutterya1652 feague1664 traipse1676 drazel1678 mopsy1699 dab1736 slammerkin1737 rubbacrock1746 trollop1753 dratchell1755 heap1806 dolly-mop1834 sozzle1848 tat1936 scrubber1959 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. T To see a..draggell taile run her taile into a bushe of thornes. 1623 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. (ed. 2) ix. xxiii. 1135/1 About twenty of those bemired Souldiers were slaine, and no other cry heard, but downe with the Draggle-tailes. 1725 J. Swift Let. to Sheridan 25 Jan. in Misc. (1745) X. 80 What a Draggle-Tail will she be before she gets to Dublin! 1881 W. Besant & J. Rice Chaplain of Fleet II. iii. 51 A well-dressed woman and a draggletail are all one to them. 2. plural. Skirts that drag on the ground in the mud. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > clothing for lower body > skirt > types of > other > skirts draggle-tails1858 pouf1987 1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma lxxv. 331 Looped-up dresses..a great improvement on the draggletails. 1871 C. Gibbon For Lack of Gold I. viii. 119 The dress..which, to avoid draggle-tails, was worn short. 3. attributive. = draggle-tailed adj. ΘΚΠ 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 draggled1513 daggling1562 daggle-tailed1573 daggled1607 draggle-tailed1654 draggle-tail1707 daggled-tail1711 bedraggled1824 bedabbled1862 traipsed1884 1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Comical Wks. 469 Draggle-Tail Jilts newly Whip'd. 1879 M. E. Braddon Cloven Foot xii. 108 Nice draggle-tail creatures we shall look after we have walked..under such a rain as this. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1596 |
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