dratchel
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- A slovenly, untidy woman; a slattern.
[Prov. Eng.] Johnson, Dict. of the Eng. Lang., 1755. She'll be a poor dratchell by then she's thirty, a-mar-r'in' a' that'n, a fore her teeth's all come. George Eliot, Adam Bede I. ii. 20.
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- Also dratchell, drotchel, drotchell; from dratch, dretch, linger, dawdle: see dretch.