单词 | tagraggery |
释义 | tagraggeryn. A tag-rag collection or assemblage; a mass of trumpery odds and ends. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > worthless > collectively riff-raff1526 trumpery1531 triff-traff1547 trashery1557 dudgeon1593 lee1593 sweeping1641 lumber1649 worthless1758 trashtrie1786 tagraggery1837 flotsam1861 tat1951 1837 J. W. Carlyle Lett. I. 66 When one is delivered from the tag-raggery of printers' devils. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. iv. vii. 454 Was there ever seen such a travelling tagraggery of a Sovereign Court before? 1871 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches V. App. xi. 188 (note) Antiquarian tagraggeries. 1887 Sat. Rev. 30 July 139/1 The ‘inventing fiend’..has upset the war-ship so utterly, and has pestered it about with such a tag-raggery of small machines. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < |
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