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Definition of Daggle
1. v. t. To trail, so as to wet or befoul; to make wet and limp; to moisten.
2. v. i. To run, go, or trail one's self through water, mud, or slush; to draggle.
Definition of Daggle
1. Verb. To run, go, or trail oneself through water, mud, or slush; to draggle. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Daggle
1. to drag in mud [v -GLED, -GLING, -GLES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Daggle
Literary usage of Daggle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1901)
"•daggle, to moisten, wet with dew or spray. (Scand.) Frequentative verb from Swed.
dagg, Icel. dögg (gen. daggar), dew. ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"Like a dutiful son you may daggle about with your mother and sell (mint. ...
[< daggle + obj. tat'/l.] I. n. One whose garments trail on the wet ground ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1881)
"daggle, va and n., iq Dag, of which it is the frequentative form. ... The '
Dorothy Draggle-tail' of Dame Durden is here ' Doll daggle-teel. ..."
4. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"daggle. To trail in the dirt; to run like a child. North. daggle-tail, a slovenly
woman ; anything that catches the bottom of the dress in walking. ..."
5. Scandinavian Loan-words in Middle English by Erik Björkman (1900)
"29); from the stem dagg- is formed NE (dial.) daggle vb. 'to sprinkle with water,
to moisten, wet with dew or spray' (NED, EDD, cf. ..."
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