tavella ([identity profile] tavella.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] elspethdixon 2009-01-31 05:33 pm (UTC)

OED: "[a] draggle-tailed person; a woman whose skirts are wet and draggled, or whose dress hangs about her untidily and dirty; a slut"

Cassell's Dictionary of Slang: "draggle-tail n. 1 a prostitute, thus draggletailed, draggled, promiscuous, a general abusive term."

Francis Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: "DRAGGLETAIL or DAGGLETAIL. One whose garments are bespattered with dag or dew: generally applied to the female sex, to signify a slattern."

I think it's pretty clear who "fully understands" the words involved.

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