draggle-tail

  • 11Drabble-tail — Drab ble tail , n. A draggle tail; a slattern. Halliwell. [1913 Webster] || …

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  • 12daggle-tail — daggˈle tail noun A draggle tail • • • Main Entry: ↑daggle …

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  • 13daggle-tail — n. Slattern, slut, sloven, draggle tail, slovenly person …

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  • 14Daggle-tail — Dag gle tail (d[a^]g g l t[=a]l ), Daggle tailed Dag gle tailed ( t[=a]ld ), a. Having the lower ends of garments defiled by trailing in mire or filth; draggle tailed. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 15Uncleanness — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Uncleanness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 uncleanness uncleanness &c.???adj. Sgm: N 1 impurity impurity Sgm: N 1 immundity immundity immundicity Sgm: N 1 impurity impurity &c.???of mind ???>961 …

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  • 16dag —  1) dew upon the grass ; hence a woman who lias dirted her clothes with wet or mire is called daggle tail, corrupted to draggle tail. Daglocks, locks of wool spoiled by the dag or dew. S.  2) to dag, to run thick. N.  3) to dag a garden, to water …

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  • 17drab — I. n. 1. Strumpet, prostitute, trull. See courtesan. 2. Slut, draggle tail, trollop, slattern, dowdy, slovenly woman. 3. Brownish yellow cloth, dull brown woollen stuff, dun colored cloth. 4. Dun, dull brown, brownish yellow, dun color. II. a …

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  • 18drab — I adj 1. dun, dun colored, dull brown, dull gray, mouse colored, Inf. mousy. 2. dull, dreary, dingy, flat, mat, lusterless, lackluster, Scot, and North Eng. blae; dark, dismal, cheerless, Scot. ourie. 3. dead, lifeless, spiritless, uninspired,… …

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  • 19slut — n 1. slattern, drab, trollop, sloven, draggle tail; frump, dowdy; hag. 2. prostitute, harlot, whore, hussy, loose woman, wanton, fallen woman, woman of ill repute, lady of the evening; trull, quean, painted woman, streetwalker, bar girl, Inf.… …

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  • 20swine — n 1. hog, pig, sow, barrow; razorback, boar, wart hog, peccary, babirusa; porker, grunter, tusker, oinker; piggy, piglet, pigling, hogling, shoat. 2. brute, animal, wolf, monster, savage; masher, lecher, libertine, pervert, dirty old man; worm,… …

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