DRAGGLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does draggled mean? 

• DRAGGLED (adjective)
  The adjective DRAGGLED has 1 sense:

1. limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud

  Familiarity information: DRAGGLED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRAGGLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud

Synonyms:

bedraggled; draggled

Context example:

scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts

Similar:

dirty; soiled; unclean (soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime)

 Context examples 

Three servants of the castle lay dead beside them, all torn and draggled, as though a pack of wolves had been upon them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His face and neck were hidden beneath a black beard, intershot with grey, which would have been stiff and bushy had it not been limp and draggled and dripping with water.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The hair hung down, limp and draggled, or matted with dried blood where Hal’s club had bruised him.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

His jaws were apart, and through them the tongue protruded, draggled and limp.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

They were mere skeletons, draped loosely in draggled hides, with blazing eyes and slavered fangs.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

A draggled muslin cap on his head and a dirty gunny-sack about his slim hips proclaimed him cook of the decidedly dirty ship’s galley in which I found myself.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

His handsome coat was draggled.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Just glance at your draggled skirts, for instance. Look at those three-cornered tears. And such a waist!

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)