Meaning of daggle-tail | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A slovenly woman; a slattern; a draggle-tail.
   archaic
2. Clothes that are filthy at the bottom from dragging through the mud.
   attributive, obsolete, often

Examples

“for she was no daggle-tail I will be bound, but as neat a lass as Sarah o ' Richard's, every bit.”

“He co'de her a mismanner't daggle-tail, —- an ' a mawkin', — an' a daffockin', sloppety sliven, an' an ill-contrive't snicketty fussock, -an' sich like.”

“"Daggle-tail,” Emrys replied with a cheeky grin.”

“Do you have a daggle-tail's drawers stuffed in your ears?”

“Setting aside the dubious masturbatory potential of such passages (and thus runs the whole book) we may have to accept that this was probably not the meat-and-potatoes monologue of the averate sporting lady, daggle-tail or nymph of darkness.”

“Every shawlie and shabaroon, every larrikin and scut, every slut, daggle-tail, trollop and streel, frowsy old bowsies and loitering corner-boy sprawlers in caps, every farthing-face and ha'pennyboy, every gutty, gouger, louser, glugger, nudger, sharper, shloother, head, every whore's melt of them, mister-me-friend and go-by-the-wall, the dogs in the street themself—- all rascaldom wa making for Mr. Mack's tram-stop;”

“He shouldn't be kept waiting by a daggle-tail such as you.”

“Why conno yo say reet out 'at it's a pleace not fit for ony decent dot to put his head in, an' an ill-mannert daggle-tail of a woman to keep it, as I'd like to sweep out wi th' bits of a morning, an' leave her on th' muck-heap wheer she belongs?”

“This fact admitted of gentlemen of wit and pleasure murmuring, and being shocked at the sight of so many daggle-tail parsons, who happened to fall in their way , and offend their eyes ;”

“He says, —- come and dine here as soon as you can; With your haily, gaily, Gambo raily, Giggling, niggling, galloping Galloway Daggle tail dreary dun.”

“And rather than she wou'd take up her Coat, With such a shameless Daggle-tail did trot, To keep her Followers from fight provoking Of blew, of russet, or of yellow Stocking?”

“That it would afford him more entertainment to sit up to the chin in water for an hour than be obliged to listen to the whining daggle-tail Cibber, during the tedious representation of a fulsome tragedy without the possibility of receiving from it either pleasure or instruction.”

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