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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