单词 | riffraff |
释义 | riff·raff I. 1. a. < beachcombers, adventurers, rough traders, and general riffraff — Ellen La Motte > broadly < all the riffraff for miles around have been using my garden as if it were their own — P.G.Wodehouse > < painters, authors, and other vagrant riffraff who frequented the premises — Norman Douglas > b. < the riffraff might sack the town — Harper's > c. < will not have some riffraff … trailing about with us — Elizabeth Janeway > 2. < waistcoats of dirty damask, legs of velvet breeches — in a word, all the cast-off riffraff of centuries — W.W.Story > < had once actually said that pigeons were mere riffraff — Sean O'Faolain > II. < a score of riffraff gunslingers, barroom brawlers — New Yorker > < riffraff opinions > < a riffraff army > < row of riffraff dwellings — Booth Tarkington > |
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