Straggle

Definition: Straggle

Straggle

Noun

1. A wandering or disorderly grouping (of things or persons); "a straggle of outbuildings"; "a straggle of followers".

Verb

1. Wander from a direct or straight course.

2. Go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way; "Branches straggling out quite far".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "straggle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1856. (references)

Note: Straggle \Strag"gle\, noun. The act of straggling. [Rare]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Straggle

Deviation

Stray, straggle; sidle; diverge; tralineate; digress, wander; wind, twist, meander; veer, tack; divagate; sidetrack; turn aside, turn a corner, turn away from; wheel, steer clear of; ramble, rove, drift; go astray, go adrift; yaw, dodge; step aside, ease off, make way for, shy.

Journey

Flit, take wing; migrate, emigrate; trek; rove, prowl, roam, range, patrol, pace up and down, traverse; scour the country, traverse the country; peragrate; circumambulate, perambulate; nomadize, wander, ramble, stroll, saunter, hover, go one's rounds, straggle; gad, gad about; expatiate.

Crosswords: Straggle

Expressions using "straggle": straggle away ♦ straggle in and out. Additional references.

Beginning with "straggle": straggle-toothed.

Albanian

shpërndahem (break up, disband, disperse, dissipate, grow dim, lift, outreach, reach, scatter, spread, spread out, thin), mbijnë rastësisht. (various references)

Arabic 

‏تفرق (break up, dissipation, disunion, divide, part, parting, pass off, separate, split up, strewing, thin), ‏تنمو الحشائش متفرقة, ‏تنتشر المنازل, ‏تدلى الشعر من غير نظام, ‏إنتشر في غير نظام, ‏دخل و خرج في مجموعات. (various references)

Bulgarian 

разпръсната група хора, разпиляни неща, изоставам от частта си, движа се разпръснато. (various references)

Chinese 

�""延 (Straggled, straggling). (various references)

Czech

trousit se, rozptýlený hlouèek, odtrhnout se (break away, secede), odchýlit se (deviate). (various references)

Farsi 

متفرق شدن , هرزه روءیدن (Sprawl), سرگردان بودن (Moon, Traipse, Wander), سرگردان (Adrift, Astray, Discursive, Erratic, Gadabout, Rambler, Strafe, Stray, Wanderer), اواره (Adrift, Gadabout, Immigrant, Tramp, Wanderer). (various references)

French

s'étendre en longueur, retomber en désordre, pousser tout en longueur, être épars. (various references)

German

umherstreifen (roam, roam about, scour, to scour, to straggle, wander, wander around). (various references)

Greek 

ξεκόβω (amputate, cut off, cut out, wean), πλανώμαι (err), αποπλανώμαι (stray), αφίσταμαι. (various references)

Hebrew 

לשוטט (gallivant, hang about, loiter, meander, mooch, perambulate, prowl, range, roam, rove, traipse, wander), לפ�'ר (be backward, be retarded, be slow, drop behind, fall behind, lag, trail), ל�"שתרך (plod along, shuffle), ל�"ז�"� ב (follow, queue up, tail, trail behind). (various references)

Hungarian

cselleng (dawdle, hang about, hang around, hover, lounge about, to dawdle, to hang about, to hang around, to laze, to lop about, to sheer, to trapes), csatangol (bump round, loaf, loiter, Maunder, to fool about, to fool around, to go for a roam, to saunter, to saunter along, to straggle, to stroll, to trapes, wander). (various references)

Italian

vagabondare (meander, roam, stray, stroll, wander, wander about), girovagare (Maunder, meander, roam, stroll about, wander, wander about), disperdersi (disperse, dissolve, thin out). (various references)

Korean 

낙오하십시�". (various references)

Manx

trudley (stroll). (various references)

Pig Latin

agglestray

Portuguese

vaguear (hobo, knock about, knock around, lounge, maroon, maunder, meander, moon, ramble, range, roam, rove, stray, trail, vagabondize, wander), perder-se (astray, disappear, go astray, lose the day, miscarry, stray, wander), extraviar-se (astray, go astray, leave out, miscarry, stray), errar (boggle, err, lapse, make a mistake, miss, roam, trip, vagabondize, wander), dispersar-se (scatter, stray), andar perdido, afastar-se (absent onself, depart, go away, hide, keep away, leave, retire, turn away, veer). (various references)

Romanian

vagabonda (be on the tramp, bum, hang around, mooch about, rove, run about, stray), rãtãci (linger, loiter, lose, meander, Miss, ramble, rove, stroll), rãmâne în urmã (drop astern, drop behind, fall behind, hang, lag, lose), merge în dezordine, fi împrãştiat (lie about), devia (deflect, depart, digress, diverge, drift, glance, swerve, wander, warp), creşte (accrue, advance, augment, be up, breed, bring, bring up, crop, cultivate, develop, draw out, educate, go up, grow, grow rife, heighten, increase, intensify, keep, make, Mount, multiply, nurse, nurture, produce, propagate, raise, rear, rise, school, spring, spurt, train, wax), abate (abbot, call away, deflect, distract, divert, stray, swerve, turn), împrãştia (bestrew, break, diffuse, dispel, disperse, disseminate, dissipate, distribute, effuse, exude, fling, propagate, scatter, shoot out, spill, split up, spread, sprinkle, strew, throw about, vanish). (various references)

Russian 

отставать (be in arrears, drag, drop behind, fall behind, lag, lag behind, lose ground, slow), брести в беспорядке. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

skitati (loaf, ramble, roam, traipse, truck, wander), zaostajati (lag), lutati (moon, ramble, roam, wander), ići rasuto. (various references)

Spanish

extraviarse (aberrate, err, get lost, go astray, go wrong, lose oneself, miscarry, stray, stray off, wander). (various references)

Swedish

ströva (drift, ramble, stray, stroll), sacka efter (drop behind). (various references)

Thai

กระจั�"กระจาย (break), หลงทาง (lose). (various references)

Turkish

sürüden ayrılmak, yoldan sapmak (stray, warp), konudan sapmak (divagate, wander away from the subject), dağınık olmak, dağılmak (adjourn, be scattered, clear, clear away, come apart, crack up, decay, decompose, diffuse, disband, disintegrate, disperse, disrupt, dissolve, fall, fly to pieces, go into splinters, go splinters, go to pieces, scatter, separate, splinter, spread). (various references)

Ukrainian

іти урозбрід, відставати (be in arrears, drag, drop behind, fall behind, hang back, lag, lag behind, lose time, retard, stand behind), дезертирувати (defect, desert, step). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "straggle": straggled, straggler, stragglers, straggles. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Straggle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: scraggle, staggle, stcraggle, strage. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: gagster, gargets, gargles, laggers, largest, raggles, stagger, taggers.

-2 letters: aggers, aglets, alerts, alters, argles, artels, eggars, estral, gagers, garget, gargle, gaster, glares, grates, greats, lagers, lagger, larges, laster, raggle, ratels, retags, sagger, salter, seggar, slater, stager, staler, stelar, tagger, talers, targes, tergal.

-3 letters: agers, agger, aglet, alert, alter, argle, arles, artel, aster, earls.

+1 letter: straggled, straggler, straggles.

+2 letters: stragglers, stragglier.

+3 letters: lighterages, scraggliest, straggliest.

+4 letters: agglomerates, slaughtering, staggeringly.