Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bedraggled"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bedraggle \Be*drag"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bedraggled}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Bedraggling}.]
To draggle; to soil, as garments which, in walking, are
suffered to drag in dust, mud, etc. --Swift.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
bedraggled
adj 1: limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud; "the beggar's
bedraggled clothes"; "scarecrows in battered hats or
draggled skirts" [syn: {draggled}]
2: in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements";
"a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a
tumble-down shack" [syn: {broken-down}, {dilapidated}, {ramshackle},
{tatterdemalion}, {tumble-down}, {unsound}]
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