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Untidy; bedraggled. Do you think that such a fine proper gentleman as he cares for a flddlecome tale of a draggletailed girl? Sir J. Vanbrugh, The Relapse, iv. 2.

I shall make a duchess of this draggletailed guttersnipe. — Pygmalion
When the whole world’s hoddendoon and draggletailed, — Krindlesyke
Then drunken father and draggletailed mother had faded from the scene, and the boy had been left to a life of odd jobs and fleeting patrons. — The Path of the King
a wheen sketching souls, that ye may see perched like craws on every craig in the country, e'en working at your ain trade, Maister Francie; forby men that had been in foreign parts, or said they had been there, whilk is a 'ane, ye ken; and maybe twa or three draggletailed misses, that wear my Leddy Penelope's follies when she has dune wi' them, as her queans of maids wear her second-hand claithes. — St. Ronan's Well