draggle-tail

• Audrey Hepburn bespeaks a plucky elegance that permeates her turn from a '' draggle-tail guttersnipe '' into a proper English aristocrat. —  EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines
• "I thought fust it was you when I heard that draggle-tail dog of yours barkin ', but it was only —  Tides of Barnegat
• But a draggle-tail, dirty-foot slattern —  Kormáks saga. English
• She saw close to the wall some few yards away a somewhat draggle-tail figure in cloak and hood. —  Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'
• Sandra Belloni! no rival, I say "-- he invoked her in English," and you hear -- you, to be a draggle-tail vivandiere wiz a brandy-bottle at your hips and a reputation going like ze brandy. —  Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith

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