draggle-tail:

Or: draggletail , from the 16 ^th to the 19 ^th century, a slovenly and untidy woman , one who dirties the hem of her skirt , by extension one who is immoral . See playgirl for synonyms.

Quote: Professor Henry Higgins (Leslie Howard) speaking of Eliza Doolittle (Wendy Hiller) in Pygmalion (1938): ' She's so deliciously low, so horribly dirty (...) I shall make a duchess of this draggle-tailed guttersnipe .'

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