Word Meanings - DRABBLE-TAIL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A draggle-tail; a slattern. Halliwell.

Related words: (words related to DRABBLE-TAIL)

• SLATTERNLINESS
  The quality or state of being slatternly; slovenliness; untidiness.
• DRAGGLE
  To wet and soil by dragging on the ground, mud, or wet grass; to drabble; to trail. Gray. With draggled nets down-hanging to the tide. Trench. (more info) Etym:
• SLATTERNLY
  Resembling a slattern; sluttish; negligent; dirty. -- adv.
• DRAGGLE-TAIL
  A slattern who suffers her gown to trail in the mire; a drabble-tail.
• SLATTERN
  A woman who is negligent of her dress or house; one who is not neat and nice.
• DRAGGLE-TAILED
  Untidy; sluttish; slatternly. W. Irving.
• BEDRAGGLE
  To draggle; to soil, as garments which, in walking, are suffered to drag in dust, mud, etc. Swift.