drabble-tail noun 3adjective 1forms 1 noun3 •An untidy person; a general term of contempt.Jinx said to Bubber [a male character]– "Aw go 'haid, drabble[-]tail. Ain' nobody studyin' yo' family." — 1994 •(offensive) A draggle-tail; a prostitute or promiscuous woman.Whose tinsel robes of tawdry language trail, Slatterns in fine attire, a drabble tail; Whose monft'rous thoughts, diminutive and vile, Seem pigmy pages to a giant style — 1785 •A mess; something bedraggled or cheaply made.Ngarara went in, and mistaking the post for Ruru, encircled it with the drabbletail of her dress. — 1876 adjective1 •Ragtag.What was ailing this ordinarily competent musical flock that they should have languished into such a straggly, drabbletail gathering of barnyard fowl? — 1993 formsdrabble-tails
