drabble-tail

English

Etymology

drabble (“to make wet and dirty by dragging through the mud”) +‎ tail

Noun

drabble-tail (plural drabble-tails)

  1. (archaic) A draggle-tail; a slattern.
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Synonyms

See also Thesaurus:untidy person

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for drabble-tail in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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