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ragman1|ˈrægmən|
Also (sense 1) 4 raggeman, rageman, -mon, 6 Sc. ragmen.
[f. rag n.1 + man.]
†1. A name given to the Devil, or one of the devils. (Cf. ragamuffin 1, ragged a.1 1 b, and Sw. Ragg-en). Obs. rare.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xvi. 89 Go robbe that raggeman and reue the fruit fro hym. 1393Ibid. C. xix. 122 To ransake that rageman and reue hym hus apples. 15..in Bannatyne MS. 76 [Christ] that ransonit ws vpoun the rude Fra ruffy ragmen and his route. Ibid. 302 Ruffy Ragmen with his taggis Sall ryfe thair sinfull saule in raggis.
†2. A ragged person. Obs. rare—0.
c1440Promp. Parv. 421/2 Ragmann, or he that goythe wythe iaggyd [v.r. raggyd] clothys, pannicius.
3. a. A rag-gatherer, rag-dealer.
1586Day Eng. Secretary (1625) 110 He is become a sworne brother of the rag-mans number. 1660Burney κέρδ. Δῶρον (1661) 99 They were too base to make Gunpowder on, and below the Market of a Ragman. 1732Berkeley Alciphr. ii. §2 He sets the Paper-mills at work, by which the poor Rag-man is supported. 1763T. Price Life B. M. Carew 217 Happening to meet with a brother ragman..they joined company. 1833Boston Herald 19 Mar. 4/4 The ragman came up, and began to call me about the cards. 1966F. Shaw et al. Lern Yerself Scouse 24 De ragman, the old-clothes man. 1976New Yorker 23 Feb. 39/2 The street down which will sometimes come, on his rattling wagon, a ragman.
b. Contemptuously, a banker. (Cf. rag n.1 3.)
1821Cobbett Rur. Rides (1885) I. 18 [Tax collectors] will receive the country rags, if the rag-man can find, and will give security for the due payment of his rags.
4. [See rag n.5] A musician who plays ragtime music.
1938J. R. Morton in Downbeat Sept. 4/1 Blues players who could play nothing else... What we call ‘ragmen’ in New Orleans. 1950Blesh & Janis They all played Ragtime (1958) vi. 108 Following 1907–8 there comes a second generation of ragmen. 1970C. Major Dict. Afro-Amer. Slang 96 Ragmen, jazzmen who play that type of music. |