Meaning of daggle-tailed | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Having the lower ends of clothes dirty due to them trailing in mud or other filth.
   obsolete
2. Of low class or ill repute
   obsolete

Examples

“And first, I am very sensible how much the gentlemen of wit and pleasure are apt to murmur, and be choked at the sight of so many daggle-tailed parsons that happen to fall in their way, and offend their eyes”

“Hal - this awkward Scotch laird, that has scarce tact enough to make love to a ewe-milker, or, at best, to some daggle-tailed soubrette”

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