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Brewer's: Draggle-tail

A slut; a woman who allows her petticoats to trail in the dirt. The word should be “daggle-tail” (q.v.), from the Scotch dag (dew on the grass), daggle (wet with the grassdew), like the…

Brewer's: Daggle-tail

or Draggle-tail. A slovenly woman, the bottom of whose dress trails in the dirt. Dag (Saxon) means loose ends, mire or dirt; whence dag-locks, the soiled locks of a sheep's fleece, and dag…

Brewer's: Metathesis

A figure of speech in which letters or syllables are transposed, as “You occupew my pie [py],” instead of “You occupy my pew;” daggle-trail for “draggle-tail,” etc. Source: Dictionary of…
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