different between draggled vs draggle

English

Verb

draggled

1. simple past tense and past participle of draggle

Adjective

draggled (comparative more draggled, superlative most draggled)

1. Bedraggled.
   • 1765, Tobias Smollett, Travels Through France and Italy, Letter 34, Nice, 2 April, 1765,^[1]

     It was near ten at night, when we entered the auberge in such a draggled and miserable condition, that Mrs. Vanini almost fainted at sight of us, on the supposition that we had met with some terrible disaster, and that the rest of the company were killed.

   • 1937, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, Chapter 10, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012,^[3]

     Wet straw was in his draggled beard; he was so sore and stiff, so bruised and buffeted he could hardly stand or stumble through the shallow water to lie groaning on the shore.

   • 2015, Helen Macdonald, "Costa biography award 2014: H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald" in The Guardian, 6 January, 2015,^[4]

     By the late nineteenth century British goshawks were extinct. I have a photograph of the stuffed remains of one of the last birds to be shot; a black-and-white snapshot of a bird from a Scottish estate, draggled, stuffed and glassy-eyed.

English

Etymology

From drag +? -le.

Verb

draggle (third-person singular simple present draggles, present participle draggling, simple past and past participle draggled)

1. to make, or to become, wet and muddy by dragging along the ground
   • 1844, Richard Chenevix Trench, The Story of Justin Martyr: Sabbation and Other Poems, "The Herring Fishers of Lockfynk":

     […] with draggled nets down-hanging to the tide […]

   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackery, Vanity Fair, Chapter 22:

     The rain drove into the bride and bridegroom's faces as they passed to the chariot. The postilions' favours draggled on their dripping jackets.

Derived terms

• bedraggled

Anagrams

• gargled, raggled