daggle

dag +‎ -le

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdæɡəl/

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daggle (third-person singular simple present daggles, present participle daggling, simple past and past participle daggled)

1. (intransitive) To run, go, or trail oneself through water, mud, or slush; to draggle.
   • 1735, [Alexander] Pope, An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot, London; Dublin: Re-printed by George Faulkner, bookseller, […], →OCLC:

     Nor, like a puppy [have I] daggl'd through the town.

   • December 19 1863, Once a Week‎:

     There is a damp air of decay about them, and you get the impression that if you looked closely you would see the cobwebs hanging from their coat-elbows, or forming a fringe from their daggling dress.

2. (transitive) To trail, so as to wet or befoul; to make wet and limp; to moisten.
   • 1805, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: […] [James Ballantyne] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], and A[rchibald] Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:

     The warrior's very plume, I say, / Was daggled by the dashing spray.

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