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ˈshab-rag, a. and n. dial. and slang.
A. adj. Shabby, damaged, the worse for wear.
1762–7T. Bridges Hom. Trav. (1797) II. 254 None of your Bromingham affairs, Nor any such like shabrag wares, But good new halfpence from the mint, With honest George's face in print. 1880W. Cornw. Gloss. s.v. Horny-wink, An old tumble-down house has been revilingly described as an old shabrag horny-wink place.
B. n. A mean beggarly person, a ragamuffin.
1828[Carr] Craven Gloss. 1829Brockett N.C. Words. 1869R. B. Peacock Lonsdale Gloss. 1879G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk., Shab-rag, a term of contempt applied to persons of dirty, depraved appearance. |