Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A slattern.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A draggle-tail; a slattern.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun archaic A draggle-tail; a slattern.

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Examples

  • You could buy your men off with a few quims—that is to say with two cobbleheads for a cheat drabble-tail.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • You could buy your men off with a few quims—that is to say with two cobbleheads for a cheat drabble-tail.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • You could buy your men off with a few quims—that is to say with two cobbleheads for a cheat drabble-tail.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

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