ragabash
/ˈraɡəbaʃ/Chiefly Scottish, English regional (northern ), and Irish English
noun
1An idle, worthless person, a scoundrel; a ragged, disreputable-looking person, a ragamuffin.
2As a mass noun: rabble, riff-raff.
adjective
Worthless, good-for-nothing; rough, ragged.
Origin
Early 17th century; earliest use found in John Healey (c1585–c1616), translator. Origin uncertain. Perhaps from rag, with a second element of unknown origin.
- lower chamber
- lower class
- lower court
- lower critic
- lower criticism
- lower deck
- lower deck rating
- lower depths
- Lower East Side
- lowerer
- lower forty-eight
- Lower Forty-eight (States)
- lower fungus
- lower-grade
- lower house
- Lower Hutt
- lower-income
- lowering
- lower-level
- lower mast
- Lower Merion
- lower-middlebrow
- lower middle class
- lowermost
- pointsman