raggle-taggle

American  

[rag-uhl-tag-uhl] / ˈræg əlˈtæg əl /

adjective

1. ragtag.

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raggle-taggle British  

/ ˈræɡəlˈtæɡəl /

adjective

1. motley or unkempt

   a raggle-taggle band of volunteers and students

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Etymology

Origin of raggle-taggle

First recorded in 1900–05; alteration of ragtag

Example Sentences

A great battle has been won and the war against the Night King is over, but a different war now faces our raggle-taggle band and this one will require a different kind of courage and power.

From The Guardian

The production numbers felt more put-on-a-show, raggle-taggle, and human than the big-machine spectacles that the Grammys usually present.

From Slate

In November 2015, he appeared on stage alongside a raggle-taggle group of Islamophobes and ultra-nationalists.

From BBC

Then he materialized, followed by a raggle-taggle army, Muhammad Ali’s irregulars, your basic rainbow coalition of the late 1960s, falling in step behind him, chanting: “Muhammad Ali is our champ! Muhammad Ali is our champ!”

From New York Times

Neil Kinnock took on the worst possible job in British politics, leading a raggle-taggle movement that was more at war with itself than with the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher it was meant to oppose, and by dint of firm leadership he did what he could to present his party as one that was fit to govern.

From BBC