Draggles

Part of speech: verb, noun

Definitions

1. To trail or drag something through wet ground or mud
2. To become soiled or wet due to being dragged along a surface
3. To hang or droop loosely, often in a disheveled manner

Etymology: "Draggles" is simply the third-person singular present form of "draggle", a verb meaning to make something dirty or wet by dragging it through mud, water or dust. Its base word is "drag", which came into Old English as "dragan" and was related to Low German "draggen", both pointing back to a Germanic root meaning to pull or haul along the ground. "Draggle" itself is "drag" with the frequentative-style ending "-le", a suffix that English attached to verbs to describe repeated or continued action. The "-le" comes from Old English "-lian", which turned "drag" into a verb about repeatedly dragging something until it is soiled. The sense of trailing through filth, rather than simply pulling, is what sets the word apart from its parent.

Synonyms: drips, trails, dribbles, splatters

Antonyms: dries, cleans