draggletail

Across the way unsightly tenements grinned like a company of draggletail crones who had heard a rare lot about the goings-on of picture actors and, through this happy accident of propinquity, were in a position to tell the world it didn't know the half of it.

But, alas, though her cork was still sound, her wings had departed, and the solitary draggletail feather was not sufficient to waft her above the rude mirth of her auditors.

Hop-o’-my-Thumb thanked the King, and desired that the Ogress might have the noble title of Duchess of Draggletail given to her, which was no sooner asked than granted.

I shall make myself a perfect fright—a perfect dowdy—a perfect draggletail!

And Hop-o’-my-Thumb, whose influence in high places Was certain to prevail, Made the kind Ogress, who had hidden and fed them, Duchess of Draggletail.