ragtag-and-bobtail

  • 11bobtail — noun (C) a) a horse or dog whose tail has been cut short b) a tail that has been cut short see also: ragtag and bobtail ragtag (2) …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 12ragtag — adjective 1 informal looking untidy, poor, and dirty: a ragtag bunch of kids 2 ragtag and bobtail old fashioned a crowd of untidy, poor people …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 13ragtag — adjective Etymology: ragtag and bobtail Date: 1865 1. ragged, unkempt 2. motley 2 < a ragtag bunch of misfits > …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 14ragtag — /ˈrægtæg/ (say ragtag) noun 1. the worst elements; riffraff. –phrase 2. ragtag and bobtail, riffraff or rabble. {rag1 + tag1 (def. 20) …

  • 15ragtag — n. (in full ragtag and bobtail) derog. the rabble or common people. Etymology: earlier tag rag, tag and rag, f. RAG(1) + TAG(1) …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 16ragtag — 1820, from RAG (Cf. rag) (n.) + TAG (Cf. tag) (n.); originally in expression rag tag and bobtail the rabble (tag rag and bobtail is found in 1650s), from bobtail cur, 1610s. Tag and rag was very common in 16 17th c. [OED] …

    Etymology dictionary

  • 17ragtagand bobtail — ragtag and bobtail n. The lowest social class; the rabble. * * * …

    Universalium

  • 18rabble — Synonyms and related words: and bobtail, army, bourgeoisie, canaille, cluster, cohue, common ruck, commonalty, commoners, crowd, crush, deluge, dregs, dregs of society, flock, flood, galaxy, gang, heap, hoi polloi, horde, host, jam, legion, lower …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 19rout — Synonyms and related words: a mass of, a world of, agitation, and bobtail, annihilate, army, attendance, attendant, bafflement, balk, batter, bawl, beat, beating, bellow, best, bevy, bluster, bobbery, body of retainers, boil, boiling, bring down …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 20ruck — Synonyms and related words: Everyman, Public, a mass of, a world of, aggregation, and bobtail, army, assemblage, average, average man, bank, bevy, bezel, bunch, canaille, chamfer, chase, chink, cloud, cluster, clutter, cock, cocker, cockle, cohue …

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