A moment I remember vividly from my childhood was reading a book called "The White Reindeer". A reindeer calf fallsinto the water and is described as "bedraggled", which I initially broke down as "bed-raggled". My mother corrected my pronunciation and explained the "be-" prefix as "all over" - all over draggled, all over spangled, all over whatever. The word "bedraggled" also struck me as particularly amusing - I laughed and laughed about it. Later I used it in my own children's book. Still a pretty good word!