rag¹ /rag/

1. A worn, torn or waste scrap of cloth
2. A tatter
3. A shred, scrap or tiny portion
4. A farthing (old slang)
5. A jagged projection
6. A flag, handkerchief, sail, theatre curtain, garment, newspaper, or paper money (derogatory or joc)
7. The pithy part of an orange, lemon, etc
8. A worthless or beggarly person
9. A person in a state of exhaustion
10. (in pl) tattered clothing
11. Ragtime, or a piece of ragtime music

Of, for or dealing in rags

1. To tear to rags
2. To make ragged
3. To perform in ragtime

1. To become ragged, to fray
2. To dress (with out or up; old US sl)

ragged /ragˈid/ adjective

1. Shaggy
2. Rough-edged
3. Jagged
4. Made or performed unevenly
5. Raguly (heraldry)
6. Torn or worn into rags
7. Wearing ragged clothes

raggˈedly adverb

raggˈedness noun

raggˈedy adjective

Ragged-looking

raggˈery noun

1. Rags or ragged people collectively
2. Clothes, esp women's (slang)
3. Raggedness

raggˈy adjective

1. Rough
2. Ragged
3. Of the nature of a rag

rag-and-boneˈ-man noun

A person who collects or deals in goods of little value, eg old clothes, furniture, etc

rag baby noun (archaic)

A rag doll

ragˈbag noun

1. A bag for rags and thrown-away garments
2. A random or confused collection (figurative)
3. A slattern

ragˈbolt noun

A bolt with barbs to prevent withdrawal

ragˈ-book noun

A child's book printed on cloth

ragˈ-bush noun

A bush to which shreds of cloth are tied as offerings to the local spirit, often near a well

rag doll noun

1. A doll made of rags
2. A slattern

ragˈ-dust noun

Finely divided rags, used for making flock-paper

ragˈ-fair noun

1. An old-clothes market
2. A kit inspection (milit sl)

ragged-laˈdy noun

A garden flower (Nigella damascena) of the buttercup family having blue or white flowers, love-in-a-mist

ragged Robin noun

A campion (Lychnis floscuculi) with ragged-edged petals

ragged school noun (historical)

A voluntary school for destitute children in the 19c

ragged staff noun (heraldry)

A stick with branch stubs

ragˈhead noun (derog sl; offensive)

An Arab

ragˈman noun

1. A person who collects or deals in rags
2. A devil (obsolete)

ragˈ-money noun (slang)

Paper money

ragˈ-out noun

1. A newspaper article or headline reproduced in a later issue with a ragged edge as if torn out
2. An unofficial strike (slang)

rag paper noun

Paper made from rags

ragˈpicker noun

A person who collects rags from bins, heaps, etc

ragˈ-roll transitive verb

ragˈ-rolling noun

A technique, used in house decoration, of rolling a folded cloth over a specially painted surface to produce a randomly shaded effect

rags-to-richˈes adjective

(of a story, etc) describing a person's progression from poverty to wealth

ragˈtag noun

The rabble (also raggˈle-taggˈle)

adjective

1. Of or like the rabble
2. Ragged, disorderly

ragˈtime noun

1. A form of jazz music of black American origin, with highly syncopated melody
2. A tune, song or dance in ragtime

ragˈtimer noun

ragˈtop noun (US informal)

1. A folding canvas roof on a sports car
2. A car with this, a convertible

rag trade noun (informal)

The trade concerned with designing, making and selling clothes

ragˈ-trader noun (informal).

ragˈweed noun

1. Ragwort
2. Any species of the composite genus Ambrosia (US)

ragˈwheel noun

1. A toothed wheel
2. A polishing-wheel made of cloth discs clamped together

ragˈ-woman noun

ragˈ-wool noun

Shoddy

ragˈworm noun

A pearly white burrowing marine worm (Nereis diversicolor) used as bait by fishermen

ragˈwort noun

1. A common coarse yellow-headed composite weed (Senecio jacobaea) of pastures
2. Any similar species of the genus Senecio with long rays (from the cut leaves)

glad rags see under glad¹

on the rag (N American and Aust slang)

Menstruating

rag-tag and bobtail

Riff-raff

rag² /rag/

1. To banter
2. To assail or beset with silly questions, ridicule or horseplay
3. To scold

1. To wrangle, argue
2. To indulge in a rag

1. An outburst of organized horseplay, usu in defiance of authority
2. Riotous festivity, esp and orig of undergraduates (now, in British universities, associated with the raising of money for charity)

raggˈing noun

raggˈy adjective (slang)

Irritated

rag day or rag week noun

In British universities, the particular day or week during which moneymaking activities, such as processions, etc for charity are organized

lose one's rag (informal)

To lose one's temper

rag³ or ragg /rag/

1. A rough hard stone of various kinds, esp one breaking in slabs
2. A large rough slate (3ft by 2ft)

ragˈstone noun

ragˈwork noun

Undressed masonry in slabs

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