The Collaborative International Dictionary
Draggle-tailed
Draggle-tailed \Drag"gle-tailed`\, a.
Untidy; sluttish; slatternly.
--W. Irving.
Wiktionary
draggle-tailed
a. (context of a person or other animal English) slatternly, untidy, unkempt.
Usage examples of "draggle-tailed".
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.