To trail through mud or water, making something wet and dirty; to draggle or bedraggle.
From Middle English, possibly from dag (a hanging lock) or connected to drag. Related to draggle and trailing cloth through mire.
The word 'daggle' reveals how much English speakers cared about clothing conditions—they had separate words for mud-splashed (daggled), water-soaked (draggled), and dirt-smeared clothes!
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