drabble-tail

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A draggle-tail; a prostitute or promiscuous woman.
    — Whose tinsel robes of tawdry language trail, Slatterns in fine attire, a drabble tail; Whose monft'rous thoughts, diminutive and vile, Seem pigmy pages to a giant style;
  2. An untidy person; a general term of contempt.
    — Jinx said to Bubber [a male character]– "Aw go 'haid, drabble[-]tail. Ain' nobody studyin' yo' family."
  3. A mess; something bedraggled or cheaply made.
    — Ngarara went in, and mistaking the post for Ruru, encircled it with the drabbletail of her dress.
形容词 adj.
  1. Ragtag.
    — What was ailing this ordinarily competent musical flock that they should have languished into such a straggly, drabbletail gathering of barnyard fowl?

词形变化

drabble-tails plural

词源

词源 1
From drabble (“to make wet and dirty by dragging through the mud”) + tail.
词源 2
From drabble (“to make wet and dirty by dragging through the mud”) + tail.
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