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Aug 5, 2021
This week’s themeWords to describe people This week’s words verigreen raffish clamant draggletailed faitour 
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with Anu Gargdraggletailed
PRONUNCIATION:
(DRAG-uhl-tayld)
MEANING:
adjective: Dirty or untidy.
ETYMOLOGY:
From draggle (to trail on the ground or in mud, etc.) + tail. Earliest
documented use: 1654.
USAGE:
“Em’leen was always draggletailed and badly shod.” John Galsworthy; Tatterdemalion; Scribner; 1920. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has
to avoid a shipwreck. -Guy de Maupassant, short story writer and novelist
(5 Aug 1850-1893)
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