Meaning of drabble-tail | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A draggle-tail; a prostitute or promiscuous woman.
2. An untidy person; a general term of contempt.
3. A mess; something bedraggled or cheaply made.

Examples

“Whose tinsel robes of tawdry language trail, Slatterns in fine attire, a drabble tail; Whose monft'rous thoughts, diminutive and vile, Seem pigmy pages to a giant style;”

“If the rubber piled up to the ceiling she would simply move to another room. His disgust with such slatternly, drabbletail customs of India rose to the surface as he slapped twenty-rupees in the crack-salesman's light-colored palm. The girl winked at the pimp as he slipped out to the hallway.”

“Lad-loupin molls an gadabouts, / fellow-fond an sly, / flappy-skets an drabble-tails / oo'll bleed a bloke bone-dry: […]”

“I am told he is come back from his travels, bringing a drabble[-]tail with him, a wench from Baltimore […]”

“No Latin prayers or laughing drabble-tail whores.”

“A couple of hundred papist drabble-tails, found begging for quarter with whorish mouths, are heaped by some wagons, where his men eye them hungrily.”

“They're hard, often brutal, sometimes vicious to their wives, their 'drabbletails' (girlfriends), and one another.”

“Jinx said to Bubber [a male character]– "Aw go 'haid, drabble[-]tail. Ain' nobody studyin' yo' family."”

“the drunken drabbletail Dublin drab”

“The mule didn't budge. "Gol-danged son of a splinter-cat!! Hee-yah...Hee-yah!" The man then resorted to a blow with a heavy, stick.^([sic]) "In all my born days I never seen such a ornery, blamed drabbletail!" he yelled.”

“"That's as well, you low-arsed pair o' drabble-tails. I wants to see you behind a plough this afternoon. […]"”

“Ngarara went in, and mistaking the post for Ruru, encircled it with the drabbletail of her dress.”

“Probably she got it on hire from some cheap costume dealer in the Brunnen Strasse or some such locality. It was a perfect drabbletail, and looked hideous.”

“A drabble tail a trample — an empty coddle cap”

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