draggle

[ drag-uh l ]

/ ˈdræg əl /

to soil by dragging over damp ground or in mud.

to trail on the ground; be or become draggled.

to follow slowly; straggle.

Origin of draggle

First recorded in 1490–1500; drag + -le

I have nothing to do with such milk-sop organizations, or the donkeys that draggle at their heels.

Eventide |Effie Afton
Still, somewhere under the huddle and draggle of it all burned on the human soul.

The Way of a Man |Emerson Hough
A few feet from the coach the water appeared to deepen, and the bear-skin to draggle.

Jeff Briggs's Love Story |Bret Harte
She feels it due to this same principle to draggle her skirts through the mud, to get her feet wet, and to come home an "object."

The Champagne Standard |Mrs. John Lane

It goes right hard with her to draggle her skirts in the dewy strawberry beds; but she feels consoled when I fetch up the till!

Idle Hour Stories |Eugenia Dunlap Potts

draggle

/ (ˈdræɡəl) /

to make or become wet or dirty by trailing on the ground; bedraggle

(intr) to lag; dawdle

C16: probably frequentative of drag