bedraggled, draggled
(adjective) limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud; “the beggar’s bedraggled clothes”; “scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts”
bedraggled, broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down
(adjective) in deplorable condition; “a street of bedraggled tenements”; “a broken-down fence”; “a ramshackle old pier”; “a tumble-down shack”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
bedraggled (comparative more bedraggled, superlative most bedraggled)
Wet and limp; unkempt.
Decaying, decrepit or dilapidated.
• (decaying, decrepit or dilapidated): See ramshackle
bedraggled
simple past tense and past participle of bedraggle.
Source: Wiktionary
Be*drag"gle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bedraggled (; p. pr. & vb. n. Bedraggling (.]
Definition: To draggle; to soil, as garments which, in walking, are suffered to drag in dust, mud, etc. Swift.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
2 April 2025
(adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; “covert actions by the CIA”; “covert funding for the rebels”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
