What does drabble-tail mean?
Drabble-tail means A draggle-tail; a prostitute or promiscuous woman..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
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;
If the rubber piled up to the ceiling she would simply move to another room. His disgust with such slatternly, drabbletail customs of India rose to the surface as he slapped twenty-rupees in the crack-salesman's light-colored palm. The girl winked at the pimp as he slipped out to the hallway.
Lad-loupin molls an gadabouts, / fellow-fond an sly, / flappy-skets an drabble-tails / oo'll bleed a bloke bone-dry: […]
I am told he is come back from his travels, bringing a drabble[-]tail with him, a wench from Baltimore […]
No Latin prayers or laughing drabble-tail whores.
A couple of hundred papist drabble-tails, found begging for quarter with whorish mouths, are heaped by some wagons, where his men eye them hungrily.
They're hard, often brutal, sometimes vicious to their wives, their 'drabbletails' (girlfriends), and one another.
Jinx said to Bubber [a male character]– "Aw go 'haid, drabble[-]tail. Ain' nobody studyin' yo' family."
Use drabble-tail when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Drabble-tail means A draggle-tail; a prostitute or promiscuous woman..
Common synonyms include clatty, dag, dirtbag, dirtball.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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;
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