Definition of "draggled"
draggled
adjective
comparative more draggled, superlative most draggled
Having a limp, miserable, dilapidated appearance; bedraggled.
Quotations
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.
1765, Tobias Smollett, Travels Through France and Italy, Letter 34, Nice, 2 April, 1765
Here, in front, the deserted street was white and black and silent, under the electric lamps. All the lonelier for two wretched gamins, counting their dirty sous, and draggled newspapers.
1894, [Robert William Chambers], chapter XVII, in In the Quarter, New York, N.Y., Chicago, Ill.: F. Tennyson Neely, publisher, page 313
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.
2015 January 6, Helen Macdonald, “Costa biography award 2014: H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald”, in The Guardian