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Draggletail (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Draggletail

Daggletail

One whose garments are bespattered with dag or dew: generally applied to the female sex, to signify a slattern.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

Drag Lay * Dragooning It

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Nathan Bailey's 1736 Dictionary of canting and thieving slang

John S. Farmer's collection of canting songs and slang rhymes

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About

Francis Grose was independently wealthy, having inherited money from his father, a jeweller. Finding himself overspending, he published a number of books; his Provincial Glossary seems to have been the starting-point for the Vulgar Tongue reproduced here.

Dowdy
Down Hills
Down
To Dowse
Dowse On the Chops
Dowser
Doxies
Drap
Drag
Drag Lay
Draggletail
Dragooning It
Drain
Dram
Dram-a-tick
Draper
Draught
Draw Latches
To Draw
Drawers
Drawing the King’s Picture