rag-tagn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈraɡtaɡ/, U.S.

/ˈræɡˌtæɡ/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: rag n.², tag n.¹

Etymology: < rag n.² + tag n.¹ Compare earlier tag and rag at tag n.¹ 10b, tag-rag n., and tag-rag adj. With use as adjective compare earlier ragtail adj.

A. n.

1. rag-tag (also rag, tag) and bob-tail.

a. A disreputable or disorganized group of people; the lowest element of a community; the riff-raff or rabble; = tag, rag, and bobtail n. at tag-rag n., adj., and adv. Phrases 1, tag-rag and bob-tail at bob-tail n. 5; (also) a single person of this type. Also occasionally: the whole lot.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > the whole or all > [noun] > the whole quantity, number, or amount > the whole lot

every whita1450

every stitch?a1500

the devil and all1543

prow and poop1561

Christ-cross-row1579

every snip1598

thread and thrum1600

boodle1625

hair and hoof1705

rag-tag (also rag, tag) and bob-tail1725

tutti quanti1772

lot1791

lock, stock, and barrel1824

stock and fluke1825

the whole boiling1837

box and dice1839

the whole caboodlea1848

sub-cheese1859

the whole kit and boiling (boodle, caboodle, cargo)1859

the whole jingbang1866

the whole hypothec1871

the whole ball of wax1882

the whole (entire) shoot1884

(at) every whip-stitch1888

work1899

issue1919

guntz1958

full monty1979

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > [noun] > collectively > various sorts of

tag, rag, and bobtail1645

shag rag and bobtail1708

rag-tag (also rag, tag) and bob-tail1725

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > the lowest class > [noun] > the rabble

commona1350

rascala1382

rascaldry?1457

routc1475

tag and ragc1535

riff-raff1545

rabble1549

rascabilia1557

rabblement1565

bran1574

rascability1583

rascality1583

canaille1588

canalliary1600

canaglia1607

taga1616

ribble-rabble1635

volge1639

rabble rout1650

tag-rag and bob-tail1660

mobile1676

mobility1690

mob1691

rag-tag (also rag, tag) and bob-tail1725

kennel1726

rough scruff1814

rough scuff1816

tag-rag1826

rascalry1827

rascalment1832

doggery1843

polloi1856

raggle-taggle1958

1725 W. Teague Let. in Mist's Weekly Jrnl. 2 Oct. My Assistance in this Piece of Impudence, if it should ever succeed, will be esteemed Persons of Worth and Reputation, especially if they should be indicted, though they are Rag-Tag, and Bob-tail, and be thought witty.

1780 Rhyme & Reason 17 Locks may be open'd, and keys may be stole, Or rag-tag and bob-tail creep through the keyhole.

1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 7 318 This Journal cuts up the rag-tag and bobtail of the faction.

1865 ‘M. Twain’ in Californian 18 Mar. 8/2 The ruff-scruff and rag-tag-and-bob-tail of noble old Calaveras.

1887 T. A. Trollope What I Remember II. vi. 95 He shall have them all, rag, tag, and bobtail.

1930 W. S. Maugham Cakes & Ale iii. 41 It was horrid to have all that rag-tag and bobtail down from town every year.

1992 S. Holloway Courage High! iii. 36/1 Any rag, tag and bobtail who could reach a fire with a vehicle which might pass as a ‘fire engine’ was..getting in the way of the trained firemen.

b. attributive. Disreputable; disorderly; disorganized.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > [noun] > person of

rag-tag and bob-tail1830

disreputable1853

cheeseball1986

1830 C. Darwin Let. 1 Apr. in Corr. (1985) I. 102 This letter is a strange rag-tag & bob tail affair.

1926 Red Bk. Mag. May 168/3 Pauline and I are making a lot of desirable friends, getting away from the rag-tag-and-bobtail crowd we used to go with.

2003 Yours Oct. 132/1 With a few books and only the time between air-raids in which to teach, she gave us—a ragtag and bobtail lot aged from five to 14 years—a thirst for knowledge.

2. = rag-tag (also rag, tag) and bob-tail at sense A. 1. Also in extended use. Cf. tag-rag n., rag n.² 11, tag n.¹ 10.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > the lowest class > [noun] > the rabble > one belonging to the rabble

ribalderc1400

rascalc1475

rascaller?1518

riff-raff1602

tag-rag1609

rascabilian1616

mob1703

rag-tag1802

1802 J. Baillie Election in Series Plays (ed. 2) II. ii. iii. 38 O! your honour, all the rag tag of the parish were grinning at him.

1846 J. R. Simms Amer. Spy (1857) 33 To be brief, sir, the rag-tags of the would-be generals, Mr. Ward and others, are strongly intrenching themselves on Breed's Hill.

1879 M. Lonsdale Sister Dora (1880) viii. 199 She visited all classes—from the respectable, down to what she called the ‘ragtags’ of the town.

1903 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 3 545 There are endless little rag-tags of interest to New Yorkers that make some of us almost love the book.

1939 X. Herbert Capricornia (new ed.) ii. 17 He was surprised, having been taught to regard his black compatriots as extremely low creatures, the very rag-tag of humanity.

1973 M. L. Settle Prisons iv. 57 Somehow, the ragtag had been organized into some kind of marching order.

1992 V. Vinge Fire upon Deep Prol. 1 A ragtag of asteroids, and a single planet, more like a moon.

B. adj. In form or appearance: ragged, disordered; disreputable; disorganized, straggling; made up of disparate elements.

1. Of a thing or group of things.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > [adjective] > lacking system or method

unmethodical1570

immethodical1605

immethoded1653

amethodical1664

unsystematic1770

unsystematical1780

systemless1805

ramble-scramble1827

immethodic1858

rag-tag1860

impressionistic1909

presystematic1931

1860 N.Y. Times 29 Aug. He was preceded and followed by almost ten thousand little boys with rag-tag pants, fly-trap hats and lobster-net shoes.

1865 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 440 A touch of civilization, to contrast with the impression of that Labradorian rag-tag existence which we had hitherto seen.

1879 Fitchburg (Mass.) Daily Sentinel 21 May The aldermen went in carriages while the common councilmen trudged along on foot and it was a rag-tag affair.

a1918 R. S. Bourne Hist. Literary Radical (1956) 98 A high quality of urban life can be developed in a ragtag chaos of undistinguished styles and general planlessness.

1969 Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 91 facing p. 4946 (advt.) Such rag-tag, sometimes illegible copies probably stay in your files..permanently.

1997 Economist 1 Feb. 105/2 Atoms in a condensate behave not like ordinary matter, as a rag-tag bunch of particles stuck together, but as a single, marching wave.

2. Of a person or group of people.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > the lowest class > [adjective] > belonging to the rabble

rascala1450

rascally1592

ribble-rabble1598

riff-raff1598

tag-raga1616

rabblea1633

rag-tag1860

raggle-taggle1891

1860 Press & Tribune (Chicago) 20 Sept. 1/3 The ‘greatest meeting ever being held in the United States’ being held in a building less than half the size of our Chicago wigwam, together with some rag-tag rabble out of doors.

1877 N.Y. Tribune 11 Aug. 4/2 No such rag-tag faction as the one forming in Cincinnati and Columbus can be got up without its most effective recruiting being done in the Democratic ranks.

1883 Glasgow Weekly Herald 23 Apr. 8/4 These are the shapes sold by certain rag-tag drapers at 3d.

1911 Times 21 Jan. 13/3 A diversion is caused by the entrance of the Baron's rag-tag suite... Among them..is a love-child of his own.

1969 Telegraph (Brisbane) 19 Aug. 19/4 In unison a ragtag band of motorcyclists drank a toast.

1990 D. Kramer-Rolls Home is Hunter xi. 66 Prince Charlie had landed in a remote part of Scotland..gathering a ragtag army.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	rag-tag
释义	rag-tagn.adj. Brit. /ˈraɡtaɡ/, U.S. /ˈræɡˌtæɡ/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: rag n.², tag n.¹ Etymology: < rag n.² + tag n.¹ Compare earlier tag and rag at tag n.¹ 10b, tag-rag n., and tag-rag adj. With use as adjective compare earlier ragtail adj. A. n. 1. rag-tag (also rag, tag) and bob-tail. a. A disreputable or disorganized group of people; the lowest element of a community; the riff-raff or rabble; = tag, rag, and bobtail n. at tag-rag n., adj., and adv. Phrases 1, tag-rag and bob-tail at bob-tail n. 5; (also) a single person of this type. Also occasionally: the whole lot. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > the whole or all > [noun] > the whole quantity, number, or amount > the whole lot every whita1450 every stitch?a1500 the devil and all1543 prow and poop1561 Christ-cross-row1579 every snip1598 thread and thrum1600 boodle1625 hair and hoof1705 rag-tag (also rag, tag) and bob-tail1725 tutti quanti1772 lot1791 lock, stock, and barrel1824 stock and fluke1825 the whole boiling1837 box and dice1839 the whole caboodlea1848 sub-cheese1859 the whole kit and boiling (boodle, caboodle, cargo)1859 the whole jingbang1866 the whole hypothec1871 the whole ball of wax1882 the whole (entire) shoot1884 (at) every whip-stitch1888 work1899 issue1919 guntz1958 full monty1979 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > [noun] > collectively > various sorts of tag, rag, and bobtail1645 shag rag and bobtail1708 rag-tag (also rag, tag) and bob-tail1725 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > the lowest class > [noun] > the rabble commona1350 rascala1382 rascaldry?1457 routc1475 tag and ragc1535 riff-raff1545 rabble1549 rascabilia1557 rabblement1565 bran1574 rascability1583 rascality1583 canaille1588 canalliary1600 canaglia1607 taga1616 ribble-rabble1635 volge1639 rabble rout1650 tag-rag and bob-tail1660 mobile1676 mobility1690 mob1691 rag-tag (also rag, tag) and bob-tail1725 kennel1726 rough scruff1814 rough scuff1816 tag-rag1826 rascalry1827 rascalment1832 doggery1843 polloi1856 raggle-taggle1958 1725 W. Teague Let. in Mist's Weekly Jrnl. 2 Oct. My Assistance in this Piece of Impudence, if it should ever succeed, will be esteemed Persons of Worth and Reputation, especially if they should be indicted, though they are Rag-Tag, and Bob-tail, and be thought witty. 1780 Rhyme & Reason 17 Locks may be open'd, and keys may be stole, Or rag-tag and bob-tail creep through the keyhole. 1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 7 318 This Journal cuts up the rag-tag and bobtail of the faction. 1865 ‘M. Twain’ in Californian 18 Mar. 8/2 The ruff-scruff and rag-tag-and-bob-tail of noble old Calaveras. 1887 T. A. Trollope What I Remember II. vi. 95 He shall have them all, rag, tag, and bobtail. 1930 W. S. Maugham Cakes & Ale iii. 41 It was horrid to have all that rag-tag and bobtail down from town every year. 1992 S. Holloway Courage High! iii. 36/1 Any rag, tag and bobtail who could reach a fire with a vehicle which might pass as a ‘fire engine’ was..getting in the way of the trained firemen. b. attributive. Disreputable; disorderly; disorganized. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > [noun] > person of rag-tag and bob-tail1830 disreputable1853 cheeseball1986 1830 C. Darwin Let. 1 Apr. in Corr. (1985) I. 102 This letter is a strange rag-tag & bob tail affair. 1926 Red Bk. Mag. May 168/3 Pauline and I are making a lot of desirable friends, getting away from the rag-tag-and-bobtail crowd we used to go with. 2003 Yours Oct. 132/1 With a few books and only the time between air-raids in which to teach, she gave us—a ragtag and bobtail lot aged from five to 14 years—a thirst for knowledge. 2. = rag-tag (also rag, tag) and bob-tail at sense A. 1. Also in extended use. Cf. tag-rag n., rag n.² 11, tag n.¹ 10. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > the lowest class > [noun] > the rabble > one belonging to the rabble ribalderc1400 rascalc1475 rascaller?1518 riff-raff1602 tag-rag1609 rascabilian1616 mob1703 rag-tag1802 1802 J. Baillie Election in Series Plays (ed. 2) II. ii. iii. 38 O! your honour, all the rag tag of the parish were grinning at him. 1846 J. R. Simms Amer. Spy (1857) 33 To be brief, sir, the rag-tags of the would-be generals, Mr. Ward and others, are strongly intrenching themselves on Breed's Hill. 1879 M. Lonsdale Sister Dora (1880) viii. 199 She visited all classes—from the respectable, down to what she called the ‘ragtags’ of the town. 1903 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 3 545 There are endless little rag-tags of interest to New Yorkers that make some of us almost love the book. 1939 X. Herbert Capricornia (new ed.) ii. 17 He was surprised, having been taught to regard his black compatriots as extremely low creatures, the very rag-tag of humanity. 1973 M. L. Settle Prisons iv. 57 Somehow, the ragtag had been organized into some kind of marching order. 1992 V. Vinge Fire upon Deep Prol. 1 A ragtag of asteroids, and a single planet, more like a moon. B. adj. In form or appearance: ragged, disordered; disreputable; disorganized, straggling; made up of disparate elements. 1. Of a thing or group of things. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > [adjective] > lacking system or method unmethodical1570 immethodical1605 immethoded1653 amethodical1664 unsystematic1770 unsystematical1780 systemless1805 ramble-scramble1827 immethodic1858 rag-tag1860 impressionistic1909 presystematic1931 1860 N.Y. Times 29 Aug. He was preceded and followed by almost ten thousand little boys with rag-tag pants, fly-trap hats and lobster-net shoes. 1865 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 440 A touch of civilization, to contrast with the impression of that Labradorian rag-tag existence which we had hitherto seen. 1879 Fitchburg (Mass.) Daily Sentinel 21 May The aldermen went in carriages while the common councilmen trudged along on foot and it was a rag-tag affair. a1918 R. S. Bourne Hist. Literary Radical (1956) 98 A high quality of urban life can be developed in a ragtag chaos of undistinguished styles and general planlessness. 1969 Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 91 facing p. 4946 (advt.) Such rag-tag, sometimes illegible copies probably stay in your files..permanently. 1997 Economist 1 Feb. 105/2 Atoms in a condensate behave not like ordinary matter, as a rag-tag bunch of particles stuck together, but as a single, marching wave. 2. Of a person or group of people. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > the lowest class > [adjective] > belonging to the rabble rascala1450 rascally1592 ribble-rabble1598 riff-raff1598 tag-raga1616 rabblea1633 rag-tag1860 raggle-taggle1891 1860 Press & Tribune (Chicago) 20 Sept. 1/3 The ‘greatest meeting ever being held in the United States’ being held in a building less than half the size of our Chicago wigwam, together with some rag-tag rabble out of doors. 1877 N.Y. Tribune 11 Aug. 4/2 No such rag-tag faction as the one forming in Cincinnati and Columbus can be got up without its most effective recruiting being done in the Democratic ranks. 1883 Glasgow Weekly Herald 23 Apr. 8/4 These are the shapes sold by certain rag-tag drapers at 3d. 1911 Times 21 Jan. 13/3 A diversion is caused by the entrance of the Baron's rag-tag suite... Among them..is a love-child of his own. 1969 Telegraph (Brisbane) 19 Aug. 19/4 In unison a ragtag band of motorcyclists drank a toast. 1990 D. Kramer-Rolls Home is Hunter xi. 66 Prince Charlie had landed in a remote part of Scotland..gathering a ragtag army. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.adj.1725
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