Brewer's: Draggle-tail

A slut; a woman who allows her petticoats to trail in the dirt. The word should be “daggle-tail” (q.v.), from the Scotch dag (dew on the grass), daggle (wet with the grassdew), like the Latin collutulo irroro.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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