The Collaborative International Dictionary
Draggle-tail \Drag"gle-tail`\, n. A slattern who suffers her gown to trail in the mire; a drabble-tail.
Wiktionary
n. (context largely archaic English) A slut or slattern; a slovenly woman.
Usage examples of "draggle-tail".
Henceforth, I desire to live upon a flat with never a hill in sight, amidst honest folk as stupid as their own sheep, who go to church on Sundays and get drunk, not with hachich, but on brown ale, brought to them by no white-robed sorceress, but by a draggle-tailed wench in a tavern, with her musty bedstraw still sticking in her hair.
If I was never to rank in her eyes as anything but a nonentity, it would not greatly matter if I figured as a draggle-tailed cockerel, and the Baron were to give me a good thrashing.
It's well seen what choice the most of 'em know how to make, by the poor draggle-tails o' wives you see, like bits o' gauze ribbin, good for nothing when the colour's gone.