Green’s Dictionary of Slang

of people or events, boring or slow.

1898		Royal Cornwall Gaz. 21 Sept. 2/5: Trade dull [...] Fat cows only in slight demand [...] dull and draggy. Ewes a bad trade.
1908		N. Devon Jrnl 27 Aug. 8/5: The sheep trade was a little better [...] but still somewhat draggy.
1911		N. Devon Jrnl 7 Dec. 8/4: The sheep trade was somewhat draggy, but the cattle trade was brisk.
1920		F.S. Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise in Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald III (1960) 107: When I think of another useless, draggy year.
1923		Western Times 7 Sept. 7/8: The cow and calf trade was very brisk, but the stores was a draggy trade.
1942		W. Winchell On Broadway 5 July [synd. col.] ‘Tower of Terror’ is a draggy meller from England.
1948		G.H. Bean Yankee Auctioneer 19: She had watched a terribly draggy sale.
1963		J. Rechy City of Night 44: Lets go with him. It’s a draggy day anyhow.
1971		L. Bangs in Psychotic Reactions (1988) 86: Why pad out a perfect production with a bunch of draggy filler?
2001		(con. 1964–8) J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand 112: Janice goofed on draggy Lynette.