Where did you encounter that word?

Don't quite remember. It popped into my mind yesterday. I've certainly heard it in some British movies and TV shows.

My mother (from the North East of England) uses it, if that helps.

Bedraggled, adj. Soaked and untidy; the way you get after getting caught in a rainstorm without a coat.

winklepicker

It was a style of shoe worn by Teddy Boys in the 1950s with a sharp and long pointed toe.

It's common British vernacular.

Coddle, v. To cosset, indulge, spoil, pamper--except in cookery; coddled eggs are something different.

Mollycoddle, v. Like the above, but even more so and without the culinary bit.

Woebegone (adj): Downcast, miserable, afflicted with grief.

Passim (Adv): (of allusions or references in a published work) to be found at various places throughout the text.

It's in the Oxford English dictionary. 'nuff said.

Blitzkrieg is also in the OED.

I've got another interesting example for a loan word though, which also changed meaning somewhat:
juggernaut
Etymology: < Hindi Jagannāth < Sanskrit Jagannātha ‘lord of the world’, < jagat world + nātha lord, protector.
1. Hindu Mythology. A title of Kṛishṇa, the eighth avatar of Vishṇu
2. figurative. An institution, practice, or notion to which persons blindly devote themselves, or are ruthlessly sacrificed.
3. (Now with lower-case initial.) A large heavy vehicle; spec. a heavy lorry.

taciturn [ tas-i-turn ] adjective
1) inclined to silence; reserved in speech; reluctant to join in conversation.
2) dour, stern, and silent in expression and manner.

Sandbagger: someone who deliberately misleads you to get what they want

That's the thing, English is a language full of words derived from other languages, both alive and dead.

Supercaliflawjalisticexpialadoshus - a nonsense word.