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单词 rag-tag
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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